
Nick Dunn is Executive Director of Imagination, the design and architecture research lab at Lancaster University where is also Professor of Urban Design. He is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Social Futures, examining the insights that the arts, humanities and social sciences can bring to the ways we think, envision, and analyse the futures of people, places and planet. Nick is the founding Director of the Dark Design Lab, exploring the impacts of nocturnal activity on humans and non-humans, with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of urban places at night. He is an official advocate of the International Dark-Sky Association, working across academia and multiple design professions to promote positive engagements with darkness and increase public understanding of key issues. He is author of Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City (Zero, 2016) and co-editor of Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices (Routledge, 2020).
Research topics: Urban Design; Night Studies; Future Cities; More-than-human Design; Public Spaces
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