Staff

Andy Milligan

Course Director, Interior & Environmental Design

Tel: 01382 385304
Email: a.milligan@dundee.ac.uk
Interiors Staff Office / Level 5 Matthew Building,
DJCAD 13 Perth Road DD1 4HT

Biography

Andy is interested in the relationship between the digital, spatial and domesticity contexts of dwelling. Currently, Andy is a CO-I in two funded research projects. A two year EPSRC / Technology Strategy Board Sandpit on Energy Efficiency in Buildings and User Centered Design, ‘Building Banter’, working with UCL, Southampton and Leeds universities and industry partners Ove Arup, Moixa, Vitamins and Federal Mogul. This explores how to co-opt existing technologies to improve energy efficiencies, environmental attitudes and prompt behaviour change in existing buildings. Andy is involved in the one year AHRC Connected Communities project, SPARKS: Social Parks and Urban Green space as a focus for connecting communities and research with Abertay, Sheffield, Aberdeen and University of West of England. Andy has worked as a design community mentor for the engineering initiative GO4Set. He is a member of GIDE, Group for International Design Education, has taught design across Scotland and has also contributed research papers, book chapters and journals at national and international conferences focusing on Interior design strategy and pedagogy.

REF Outputs

1. ‘Interior Tools Interior Tactics’ / 2011/ Libri Publishing / exploring various tools, tactics and strategies affecting interior design and interior architecture research from an international perspective in the 21st c / eds. Fleming, Hay, Hollis, Milligan & Plunkett

2. ‘Design for Innovative Communities’ /2011 / Maggioli Editore SpA / innovations across intercultural design education / exploring design thinking for innovative communities in Italy, Scotland, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Germany and Slovenia /edit Fassi & Rebaglio

3. ‘Occupations: Negotiations with Constructed Space’ / 2011 / published by University of Brighton / 50 theoretical perspectives on interior occupation from a series of temporal, memorial, appropriated or site specific contexts / author Terry Meade

4. ‘The Interior Design Handbook’ / 2011 / published by Berg / diverse focus on emerging interior theory / ‘Programme, Function and Fabrication: the Interior as Museum Experience’ / co-editors, Lois Weinthal, Texs and Graeme Brooker, Brighton University / 1 of 38 international researchers contributing including Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, and David Dernie. My chapter explores how interiors are stripped of their primary function, (eg. to provide shelter, belonging, dwelling and enclosure), and are made to fit the programmatic frameworks of museum exhibitions and objectified interiors.

Research Projects

Building Banter / TSB Sandpit on User Centred Design and Energy Efficiency in Buildings research consortium TSB/ EPSRC / April 2010 / co-I –People in buildings feel disengaged and disempowered to take energy saving actions. This project will improve energy efficiency by involving building users in engaging and ongoing conversations prompting energy efficiency actions in building environments. By exploiting and co-opting existing technologies, and developing a user-centred design approach, it will deliver ‘conversational tools’ through which people and buildings can input and receive information about themselves and each other.

‘SPARKS- Social parks. Urban green-space as a focus for connecting communities and research’ / funded by AHRC/RCUK Connected Communities follow on funding project/ July 2010 / co-I –project will integrate physical, social science and design through research on parks and other urban ‘social’ green spaces. The project will add value to those existing projects and drive new collaborative research thinking. The researchers will explore the development of common and overlapping methodologies. The data generated from the work will be interpreted from a range of perspectives, thus enabling the delivery of a genuinely multidisciplinary report and peer reviewed paper at the end of the funding. This project capitalises on research strengths within and beyond the ‘Connected Communities’ group of researchers on issues that are closely aligned to local and national policy agendas.