Donagh Horgan
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Netherlands
- English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese
- donagh@oifig.eu
Validated Expert info
Expert can perform Ad-hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:
- The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
- Thematic expertise: Social innovation
- Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
>Integrated and participatory design of strategies/ action plans
>Sustaining engagement of stakeholders and translating strategies/ action plans in concrete steps
Summary
Dr Donagh Horgan is an academic and practicioner in the area of regenerative placemaking and socio-spatial transformation. Trained as an architect and service designer, he is an expert on social innovation and resilience in the built environment - working with communities in the European neighbourhood and around the world.
He presently leads a living lab on sustainable urban tourism in Rotterdam, spending his time between Ireland, the Netherlands and Brazil. He is adept at translation and speaks up to eight European languages including Irish and Russian.
Alongside leading participatory research on a number of EU projects - FUTURE, SMARTDEST and others. Through his collaboration with Innovate Communities he was involved in the establishment of the Social Innovation Hub in Ballymun, IE helping to build a robust ecosystem, methods and approach to support community engagement and participation.
He brings together diverse knowledge on sustainable urban development, actively working with local governments around the world through collaboration with the Centre for Public Impact - on projects for Bloomberg Philanthropies and UNDP.
Areas of expertise include participatory co-design and facilitation; architecture and urban planning; sustainable tourism development; regenerative placemaking; and public service innovation - towards improved quality of life and environments.