Position Title
Professor; Vice Chair
- Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design
Brett Milligan
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Research and Teaching Interests:
- Multi-benefit climate change adaptation
- Transdisciplinary design practices
- Critical infrastructural studies
- Landscape fieldwork, ethnography, modeling, surveying and geospatial mapping
Brett Milligan is a landscape architect and professor of landscape architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Davis. He is a co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the human alteration and design of sedimentary landscapes, and at UC Davis, the director of the Metamorphic Landscapes Lab, dedicated to prototyping landscape-based adaptations to conditions of accelerated climatic and environmental change through transdisciplinary design research. Much of his work is based in California and the Bay-Delta region, undoing and reworking colonial legacies of land reclamation, water infrastructure, flood control and fire suppression.
Follow him on Twitter (@freeassocdesign) and Instagram (freeassociationdesign)
Current Projects/Grants:
Just Transitions in the Delta: Drought, Salinity and Sea Level Rise: https://delta-just-transitions-ucdavis.hub.arcgis.com/
Franks tract Futures Design project: https://franks-tract-futures-ucdavis.hub.arcgis.com/
Delta Island Adaptations project: https://deltaislandadaptations-ucdavis.hub.arcgis.com/
More about the Dredge Research Collaborative: http://dredgeresearchcollaborative.org/
Curriculum Vitae
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