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Dr Louise Mullagh

Lecturer, Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts

design for place-based policy, designing future policies for emerging technologies, strategic design, design and governance, knowledge curation

Expertise

  • Design Futures
  • Service Design
  • Socially Responsible Design

l.mullagh@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr Louise Mullagh is a researcher and lecturer whose work explores  understandings of place-based knowledge in our data-driven society. Her work challenges data-driven understandings of the world, advocating for situated, lived experiences to be integrated into digital knowledge systems. Her research explores the concept of More-than-Data, which critiques algorithmic representations of place and proposes walking and research through design as methods for embodied data inquiry.

Louise’s research and teaching spans Critical Data Studies, digital curation, and participatory design, with a particular focus on how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping cultural institutions and governance. She has used design fiction and speculative methods to engage policymakers in rethinking data-driven decision-making.

Currently, she is investigating the relationship between data-driven and situated understandings of place, decentralised knowledge curation and AI’s role in creative industries. Her work contributes to rethinking data activism, participatory governance, and the future of cultural knowledge systems in an increasingly algorithmic world.

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