Position Title
Professor; Vice Chair
- Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design
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/
Masters
Masters of Landscape Architecture. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Bachelors
B.A. Anthropology. Honors. University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Curriculum Vitae
Forthcoming Book: Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging Sediment and the Worlds we Are Making: https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/coming-soon