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Dr. Brenda Duggan is a design educator and researcher at Technological University Dublin, teaching visual communication design. Her PhD is in practice-based design with a current research focus on sustainment and ontological questions, examining transdisciplinary synergies for design – through ethnography, design anthropology, new materialism and semiotics. This is with the aim of questioning boundaries between human and more-than-human knowing and sensing, examining limitations of visible language design.

Dr. Duggan is an active member of the European Culture and Technology Lab (ECT Lab), contributing to internationally funded projects that examine design, ecology, ethics and alternative epistemologies, particularly through the  AesThiCo and ‘Epico’ Erasmus + KA 220 projects.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Visual communication design as discursive language: Examining semiotic spaces through new-materialism., Sheffield Hallam University

20172025

Award Date: 19 Dec 2025

Post-Graduate Diploma, Teaching and Learning 2003

1 Sep 200215 Jun 2003

Award Date: 15 Oct 2003

Master, MA (imm) Masters in Interactive multimedia.1998. Dublin Institute of Technology. Awarding body London Institute, now known as the University of the Arts London (UAL)., University of the Arts London

Award Date: 15 May 1998

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