Position Title
Academic Advisor
Professor
- Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design
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.
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Research and Teaching Interests:
- Multi-benefit climate change adaptation
- Transdisciplinary design practices
- Critical infrastructural studies
- Landscape fieldwork, ethnography, modeling, surveying and geospatial mapping