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Faculty Dean Abbott Roger Clemence Ann Forsyth Clint Hewitt John Koepke Rebecca Krinke Roger Martin Kristine Miller Laura Musacchio Lance Neckar David Pitt Robert Sykes Adjunct Faculty Joseph R. Favour Robert J. Gunderson Jon Kingstad Richard Murphy, Jr. Patrick Nunnally Peter Olin Sharon Pfeifer Dan Shaw Lecturers Research Fellows  faculty+staff main page | |||
Kristine Miller Dr. Kristine Miller, who joined the Department of Landscape Architecture in fall 2000, brings a unique perspective on landscape architecture to the department and the field. Her research addresses public space and its role in public life. Dr. Miller contends that definitions of the public and public space are contingent on design practice. She sees one of the challenges to understanding the political aspects of design is that major design theorists see the value of public space as a place for a particular kind of social life: for relaxation, recreation and everyday social encounters. Dr. Miller argues that designers seeking to provide comfortable public settings may unwittingly concretize in built form, aesthetic representations, and programmatic systems, restrictive definitions of the public and public space. Design, as much as law, policy and rhetoric, shapes what constitutes public life and who is part of the public. Dr. Miller’s research and publications examine these issues through case studies of six New York City sites: The New Times Square, City Hall Park, Jacob Javits Plaza, the Sony Atrium, Trump Tower, 590 Madison Avenue. Each case indicates the ways in which politics become material and design becomes political. Dr. Miller's interest in the field of landscape came gradually. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of arts degree in humanities and psychoanalytic thought, Dr. Miller worked for various nonprofit organizations in Buffalo and New York City, including Great Lakes United, a coalition of groups working to improve the health of the Great Lakes. After graduating from Cornell University with a master of landscape architecture degree, she received a research award to study garden history in England. While abroad she began a PhD at Edinburgh College of Art that she completed in 2001. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Dr. Miller taught as a Visiting Lecturer at Cornell and Rutgers University. At the University of Minnesota, Dr Miller teaches courses in the history of landscape architecture, research methods and urban design. She received the Ralph Rapson Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2003. This spring Dr. Miller was also awarded the Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Landscape Architecture to complete a book manuscript on her New York City research. She will be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks for the 2003-2004 academic-year. | |||
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