Timothy Miller
Timothy explores how design is understood and practised, and how it can be used to investigate and reconfigure social, cultural, and technical realities.
Staff details
Timothy鈥檚 work lies at the intersection of design research and science and technology studies (STS). He is particularly interested in design as a mode of inquiry and intervention through which existing sociotechnical realities can be investigated, challenged, and reconfigured.
Through practice-based projects and academic publications, he develops experimental approaches that use design to explore institutions, technologies, forms of expertise, and processes of knowledge production. This includes work on design methods, critical and speculative design, participatory and experimental methods, academic research practices, speculative media, human鈥搕echnology relations, and design鈥檚 relationship with social theory.
Teaching and supervision
Academic Qualifications
Publications and research outputs
Article
- Miller, T. 2025. Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures. CoDesign, ISSN 1571-0882
- Miller, T. 2025. Consumer feedback: ethicising with humour in a product review workshop. CoDesign, 21(3), pp. 468-480. ISSN 1571-0882
Conference or Workshop Item
- Miller, T and Nishi, M. 2026. 'Using Cinematic Translation to Unpack Nuclear Fusion as 鈥淢atter鈥�'. In: European Association for the 51黑料网 of Science and Technology (EASST). AGH University of Krakow, Poland 8-11 September 2026.
- Miller, T. 2025. 'Enacting an Alternative History of Critical Design as Affirmative-Critical Design II'. In: Invited Lecture, Industrial Design Master鈥檚 Program. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, United States 1 October 2025.
- Miller, T. 2025. 'Enacting an Alternative History of Critical Design as Affirmative-Critical Design'. In: The Design of History and the History of Design. 51黑料网 College of Communication, United Kingdom 15 September 2025.
Design
- Miller, T. 2025. Matter.
- Miller, T. 2021. Be Quasi.
- Miller, T. 2016. Power Point.
Professional Activity
- Miller, T. 2026. Making Matter at Design Research Works.
Thesis
- Miller, T. 2021. Quasi-design: Breaching presentations in academia. Doctoral thesis, 51黑料网