mills.dray@proton.me
(they/them)
Teaching
I work with play, strategy, organisational change, facilitation, design research and pedagogy. My current explorations include diagramming and play-led systems change
HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
2020-2022
Design BA
Goldsmiths, University of London
2013-2016
HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University
Jan 2023-present
Enabler
Leadership Centre
2017-present
Strategy and Facilitation
Curiosity Club
2017-2020
Junior Service Designer
Innovation Unit
2017
Social Designer
Year Here
2015
with Lieselotte van Leewun
The RePublic Gallery
Blyth, June 2025
Clarevoyant Machines
with Gloria López Cleries, Samantha Hookway and EmDes Class of 2026
Röhsska Museet
Gothenburg, 2024
Living Well
with Innovation Unit
2022
Doorstep Realm
Child Culture Design Thesis
Gothenburg, 2022
Mapping Play Objects
Child Culture Design
Gothenburg, 2022
Lekstuga
with Studio Dugnad
Nääs Slöjd & Byggnadsvård
Floda, June 2021
Integrated Care Partnerships
with Myron Rogers
National Health Service
Jun 2018-Dec 2019
Bristol Mental Health Partnership
with Matt Gott
NHS Mental Health
Nov 2019
Schools for Change
with Sonia Kneepkens
Northern Saints Academy
2019
Local Delivery Pilots
with Leadership Centre
Sport England
Birmingham, 2019
Plymouth Health Hubs
with Jake Garber and Leadership Centre
Plymouth, 2018-2019
Healthy New Towns
with Barking Riverside London
Barking and Dagenham, 2018
GoodFuture
with Innovation Unit Australia
Brisbane, 2017-2018
Thriving Communities
with Derbyshire County Council
Shirebrook, 2017-2018
with Ulises Navarro Aguiar
HDK-Valand Research Cluster Days
Gothenburg, October 2025
Workshop: Ethics in Practice, Deep Investigations
with HDK-Valand Staff for Palestine and Miranda Pennell
HDK-Valand
Gothenburg, September 2025
Talk: Play and Systems Change
Child Culture Design, HDK-Valand
Gothenburg, May 2025
Forum: Where Does the Critical Go?
with Onkar Kular and Jonas Fridén Kihl
Rohsska Museet and HDK-Valand
Gothenburg, April 2025
Panel: Leakage in Times of Collective Protest
with Sarah Schmidt and GU Students for Palestine
HDK-Valand Research Days
Gothenburg, January 2025
Book Launch: Collective Study in Times of Emergency
with Nick Aikens
Gothenburg, January 2025
Talk: Queer Diagramming
Drawing Articulations: A Radical Drawing Symposium
Leeds, June 2024
Workshop Series: Understanding Play Sufficiency
with Ludicology
Sandwell Council
Remote, May 2024
Workshop: Design and Person-Centred Care
with Samantha Hookway and Ulises Navarro Aguiar
Global Conference on Person-Centred Care: Knowledge(s) and Innovations for Health in Changing Societies
Gothenburg, May 2024
Workshop series (design only): Young Ambassadors
Peabody Community Foundation
2020
Workshop: Design Thinking
with Lajaune Lincoln
Peabody Community Foundation
Jan 2020
Exhibition: Play Happens
with Betty Wallingford
Nääs Slöjd & Byggnadsvård
June 2021
Workshop: Future Vision
with Joseph Harrington and Leadership Centre
Jun 2017 and Jun 2019
Workshop: Place Partnerships
with Leadership Centre Enablers
Sport England
Birmingham, 2019
Workshop: Philanthropists Working in Systems
with Karen Ellis and Matt Gott
Lankelly Chase
2018
Workshop: Ecocycle and Systems Planning
with Joseph Harrington
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
London, November 2018
Workshop: GoodFuture Hackathon
with Joseph Harrington
Goodstart Early Learning
Perth, 2017
Unknown Forces
Detriti Gallery
Gothenburg, September 2023
Lekstuga
Där fantasin bor: en utställning om lekstugor & kojor
Nääs Slöjd & Byggnadsvård
Floda, June 2021
Doorstep Realm
The Living End
HDK-Valand
Gothenburg, June 2022
A Space for Play
Known Unknowns, Goldsmiths BA Design
Truman Brewery
London, June 2016