Dr. Molly Briggs

Biography

Molly Briggs is a landscape media historian, design theorist, visual artist, and trained printmaker. Her work focuses on interactive immersive rhetorics, printed matter, and the ways mediated shape the built social space. Her dissertation, titled 'Panoramic Mode: Immersive Media Large Parks Movement' (2018), contextualizes the design and reception of large urban park landscapes in nineteenth-century Europe and the United States within the broader context of immersive spectacle. Currently, she is writing a cultural history of immersive graphic overviews and articles on chorographic mapping and the role of makerly methods in place-based material culture research. Briggs teaches core courses and special electives in design tools, methods, theory, and research to undergraduate students in Graphic Design, as well as graduates in Design Responsible Innovation. She holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture History & Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MFA in Printmaking and Photography from Northwestern University, and a BFA in Painting from the School of Art and Design, Illinois. Additionally, she serves as the President of the International Panorama Council in Switzerland and is the Executive Editor of the 'Panoramic Immersive Media Studies Yearbook' published by De Gruyter in Germany. Briggs has received numerous grants and awards for her scholarly, creative, and pedagogical work, demonstrating her commitment to advancing knowledge and practice in her field.

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