JJ Brophy

Programme Director – Design

JJ is Director of the Design Programme, a cluster of innovative and interdisciplinary courses which explore the territories of interior spatial practice, product, industrial, and transport design.

JJ has been teaching design subjects at UCA since 2005 and his research and practice background is in digital interactive design. Much of JJ’s research is technology focused and centred around themes of human-machine interaction and the 'digital view'. Previous research projects have explored large scale 3D scanning and mapping visualisations, which aimed to depict spaces through a visual language unique to the process of LIDAR scanning.

As founder of the CSA Digital Futures Lab, JJ’s research and teaching interests include creative coding, LIDAR scanning, rapid fabrication and virtual reality; specifically, how they can become more embedded elements in student design workflows.