Donagh Horgan is an academic and practitioner in the area of regenerative placemaking and socio-spatial transformation, and lab lead at the Urban Leisure and Tourism Lab Rotterdam. His work looks at societal transitions through a holistic lens of sustainable tourism. Trained as an architect and social designer, Donagh also consults internationally on social innovation on the built environment with cities and local government for UNDP, URBACT, universities and local governments. Specialising in participatory design and co-creation, he actively collaborates on a number of European-funded research projects on topics such as inclusive cities, climate democracy and heritage valorisation.