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

Position

Lecturer in Design

Timothy’s 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–technology relations, and design’s relationship with social theory.

Teaching and supervision

Timothy is a Lecturer in Design, leads the MA Design Expanded Practice pathway “Interactions and Experiments”, mentors MA student projects, and curates the MA lecture programme.

Academic Qualifications

PhD Design (Goldsmiths) – 2021

MA Design Products (Royal College of Art) – 2013

BA Spatial Design (Falmouth University) – 2007

Publications and research outputs

Article

Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures Miller, T. 2025. Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures. CoDesign, ISSN 1571-0882
Consumer feedback: ethicising with humour in a product review workshop 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

Cinematic Translations: Exploring the Potential of Filmmaking in STS Miller, T. 2023. 'Cinematic Translations: Exploring the Potential of Filmmaking in STS'. In: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, United States 8 - 11 November 2023.
User Feedback: Telling Humorous Stories About Technology and Design Miller, T. 2022. 'User Feedback: Telling Humorous Stories About Technology and Design'. In: Anticipation ’22: 4th International Conference on Anticipation. Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ, United States 16 - 18 November 2022.
User Feedback: Telling Affective Stories about Science, Technology and Design Miller, T. 2021. 'User Feedback: Telling Affective Stories about Science, Technology and Design'. In: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). University of Toronto (and Online), Canada 6 - 9 October 2021.

Design

Matter Miller, T. 2025. Matter.

Film/Video

Power Point Miller, T. 2016. Power Point.

Professional Activity

Making Matter at Design Research Works Miller, T. 2026. Making Matter at Design Research Works.

Thesis

Quasi-design: Breaching presentations in academia Miller, T. 2021. Quasi-design: Breaching presentations in academia. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London