Designer & Educator
Linsey McIntosh is a designer, educator, facilitator and researcher with a passion for spaces, places, people and communities.
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Linsey graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) at the University of Dundee with a BDes (Hons) in Interior & Environmental Design in 2005. Following this, she worked in industry as an interior designer an award-winning architecture and interior design practice. In 2011, she was awarded an MDes (Distinction) after undertaking the DJCAD Master of Design programme, where she focused on service design approaches.
Since 2011, she has held a position as Lecturer in Interior & Environmental Design within Design & Making at DJCAD (Top 10 in UK for Art & Design, Complete University Guide 2024), gaining a PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education in 2015. Linsey leads students into critical enquiry around issues of the interior, spatial experiences and co-design methods to engage people with the built environment.
Linsey is DJCAD’s Dundee co-ordinator for GIDE (Group for International Design Education). This international consortium of nine higher education art and design institutions collaborate to promote the exchange of design ideas, education, and best practice, while widening intercultural and multidisciplinary experiences across Europe and beyond.
Linsey is an independent designer and facilitator, and freelance design educator at V&A Dundee, Scotland’s Design Museum. Linsey collaboratively led ‘V&A Dundee’s Community Garden’. This project worked with people living with a range of health and well-being issues to design an urban garden space which won a Scottish Design Award in 2018 for Public Realm / Landscaping.
Linsey co-authored ‘Home fae Home: A Case Study in Co-Designing Trauma Informed Community Spaces with Young People in Dundee, Scotland’. Published in 2025 in a special issue of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal focusing on ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’.
