Brett Milligan

Position Title

Professor; Vice Chair

Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design

157 Hunt Hall

Brett Milligan

Associate Professor; Vice Chair

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)

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/