Donagh Horgan

Dr Donagh Horgan leads a living lab in Rotterdam, Netherlands which looks at societal transitions through the lens of Urban Leisure and Tourism. Trained as an architect and service designer, he is an expert on design-led social innovation and resilience in the built environment. An academic-practitioner in the area of regenerative placemaking and socio-spatial transformation, he works with Inholland University of Applied Sciences, and Erasmus University Rotterdam.  His practice supports cities in the European globally on co-creation with diverse communities, coaching on innovation for cities and local governments. Outside of lab activities he works on challenge-based learning and capacity building on programmes for ENoLL, UNDP, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the European Commission.