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Mitchell Miller

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Mitchell Miller

  • Lecturer Design History and Theory
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Job Title
Lecturer Design History and Theory
School or Academic Area
School of Design
School or Academic Area Supervised for
School of Design
Email
Mi.Miller@gsa.ac.uk
Professional Address
Rm .309, 2nd Floor The Barnes Building, Glasgow School of Art

Biography

Dr. Mitch Miller is a Lecturer in Design, History and Theory. He is an illustrator, artist and researcher with an interest in graphic anthropology, socially engaged methods and the material and intangible heritage of Mobile/Traveller communities. His dialectograms have proved to be highly influential as both a set of methodologies and style of knowledge communication, and he continues to produce these works in a variety of contexts and collaborative frameworks. Much of his research is rooted in practice, in particular finding ways to develop methdologies within disciplines such as graphic anthropology, deep mapping, or exploring the potential of socially engaged methods within Illustration and other forms of Visual Communication. He is a recognised expert on Travelling Fairground cultures and communities, and Traveller (GTRSB) cultures overall. Other areas of interest include Comics, Urban Studies, Scottish Culture and Oral History. He is co-founder and former editor of the literary and arts journal The Drouth.

Research Interests

Fairground Art, Culture and communities, Mobile Cultures/GTRSB cultures, Comics, Graphic Anthropology, Socially Engaged Methods, Screen Studies, Scottish Culture, Deep/Cultural Mapping, Oral History.

Grants

Creative Scotland, Atchin Tans and Tobers, 2024-2026 £20k

Developing place-based interventions to address health and wellbeing inequalities for Roma populations, 2024-2027, Heriot Watt University, £1.2m, Resident Artist/Recorder.

PGR Supervision Interests

Illustration, Comics, Graphic Anthropology, Urban Studies/Environments, GTRSB/Traveller/Roma Culture, Fairground culture and heritage, Deep/Cultural Mapping, Socially Engaged Reseaerch Methods, Film.

Current PGR Students

Sinan Wang, Street Furniture as a Place-making tool.

Teaching

Y2 Design History and Theory, Communication Design
Y1 Designed Objects
Y3 Elective: Design Politics
Y4 Supervision (Independent Research Study)
Postgraduate: Material Culture

Latest Additions

  1. Miller, Mitchell, O'Dochartaigh, Killian and Anon, A (2025) Colonial Debris: Collaborative Drawing of Political Action and Protest at the Old College, University of Edinburgh. Old College/Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Court, Edinburgh, 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2025
  2. Miller, Mitchell, Leslie, Chris and Irvine, Alison (2024) Concrete Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre. Graphical House, Glasgow. ISBN 9781999712693
  3. Miller, Mitchell (2024) A dialectogram of Cumbernauld Town Centre.
  4. Miller, Mitchell (2023) Barvalo: Roms, Gitans, Sinti, Manouches, Voyageurs... Mucem, Marseilles, France, 10 May- 04 September 2023
  5. Miller, Mitchell (2023) Warekai.
  6. Miller, Mitchell and Radenez, Slavka (2023) Kasko San.
  7. Miller, Mitchell, Muraben, Billie, Buhr, Frank, Kopalova, Ksenia, Madden, David, Twist, Olivia, Vormittag, Luise and Black, Stephanie (2022) Colouring In: The City. Colouring In, 1 (2). pp. 58-63. ISSN 2752-9533
  8. Miller, Mitchell (2022) The Cowp/The Nolly/The Claypits.
  9. Miller, Mitchell (2020) There/Not There: Batman and Other Unilateral Americans. The Drouth (65). ISSN 1474-6190
  10. Léobal, Clémence and Miller, Mitchell (2020) Des Voyageuses de Rouen en première ligne. Revue Z, 1 (13). pp. 159-161. ISSN 2101-4787