Brett Milligan

Brett Milligan is a professor of landscape architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Davis. There he is the director of the Metamorphic Landscapes Lab, which prototypes adaptations to conditions of accelerated climatic and environmental change through fieldwork-based practices and transdisciplinary design research. Much of his work is based in California, reworking colonial legacies of land reclamation, water infrastructure and fire suppression. He is a co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a nonprofit dedicated to exploring the human alteration and design of sedimentary landscapes, and co-author of the book Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making.

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Field Notes on Design Activism: 7

The seventh and final installment of a narrative survey in which educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for change across design pedagogy and practice.
Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes

People who study, design, or care for landscapes need to become experts at the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.
Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 1

The first installment of a narrative survey focusing on the massive move to emergency online instruction.
Isthmus: On the Panama Canal Expansion

The shockwave of Panama Canal expansion is reshaping cities throughout the Americas. We need to look through the lens of landscape, not logistics.
Landscape Migration

We are now well into a geologic era — the Anthropocene — characterized by the acceleration of environmental change. This is the landscape medium in which we design.

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Brett Milligan

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Field Notes on Design Activism: 7

Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes

Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 1

Isthmus: On the Panama Canal Expansion

Landscape Migration

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Brett Milligan

Articles

Field Notes on Design Activism: 7

Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes

Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 1

Isthmus: On the Panama Canal Expansion

Landscape Migration