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Dr Louise Mullagh

Lecturer in Performance and Place

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

My research centres on place-based knowledge systems and how we come to know places through embodied, sensory and more-than-human encounters and what is lost when those ways of knowing are displaced by data-driven and AI-generated approaches.

Working in and around Morecambe Bay, I use walking both as methodological and theoretical practice, arguing that repertoire knowledge (the embodied, ephemeral and situated) is irreplaceable in an increasingly datafied world. This work sits at the intersection of performance studies, critical data studies, mobilities research and regenerative design, exploring how we might design more regenerative knowledge systems that balance the technological and the embodied.

My wider practice extends these questions into coastal adaptation, place-based cultural development and the design of sustainable and accessible  creative practice. Across all of it, my central concern relates to whose knowledge of place counts, how it is produced and what kind of future it makes possible.

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