The Glasgow School of Art

Digger is a Lecturer in Interior Design at Glasgow School of Art, leading studio and live design projects at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. Graduating from GSA in 2000 with a First Class Honours Degree in Design, Digger also holds a PGCert. He is currently undertaking further study around the pedagogy of the studio. Through Digger’s learning and teaching practice, he is exploring alternative review formats to promote the creation of communities of practice in studio learning. Digger was part of a cross-School group investigating the development and assessment of virtual and blended provision at GSA during the Covid-19 pandemic. He is currently Chair of GSA’s Short Life Working Group on Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching, examining current and potential future use of technology-enhanced learning and teaching and the insights gained into best practice during the pandemic.

As a designer, he ran a successful practice for ten years alongside part-time design lecturing, focusing on immersive and interactive public art installations and events for various private and public institutions. Funders included Scottish Natural Heritage, NHS Highland & Islands, NHS Grampian, Scottish Arts Council, and Canary Wharf.

Digger’s research interests include: studio pedagogy and the impact of memory of physical space on student engagement within virtual studio (‘Collective memories of shared space and experience in the creation and inhabitation of virtual studio’. iJade, 2021); Temporary and time-based interventions and interiors; and the co-opting of commercial marking making in the public realm.