Colm O'Neill

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Colm O'Neill works as designer and researcher in Carlow (IE) and Brussels (BE). His work is concerned with mediations of digital literacy through graphical, user and programmatic interfaces. The research and practice that result follow the ideals of free and open source culture models.

currently:
- Lecturer in Design and IT at SETU (Carlow campus)
- Doctoral Researcher — Education and Social Justice, Lancaster University

previously:
- Member of Open Source Publishing
- MA Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam
- Graphic Design BA from ENSAV La Cambre Brussels.

Colm O'Neill

→ current
  • Lecturer in Design and IT, SETU Carlow, dept. of Computing
  • Doctoral Researcher in Education and Social Justice (ESJ) at Lancaster University
  • Freelance researcher, graphic designer, workshop coordinator, web developer
→ education
  • Master degree Media Design and Communications, networked media – Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2017)
  • Bachelor degree Graphic design & visual communications – ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels (2014)
  • Photography — INRACI, Brussels (2010)
→ professional experience
  • Digital education project coordinator, with Carlow County Development Partnership, January 2019 — ongoing
  • Education lead, beMaker, March 2018 — December 2018 http://bemaker.eu
  • Founding member, Open Source Publishing asbl/vzw, May 2015 - ongoing - http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv\_pdf/2015/03/06/15303975.pdf
  • Company manager, consultONE, November 2014 - ongoing - http://consultone.eu
  • Web designer at tentwelve.com - September 2014 → January 2015
  • Web development internship: Constant Mathieu & PLMD - summer 2013 plmd.me
  • Graphic design internship Open Source Publishing summer 2012
→ teaching & education experience
  • Lecturer, Design and IT, dept. of Computing, South East Technological University (SETU) Carlow, 2020 - ongoing
  • Assistant Lecturer in Communications, IT Carlow, Carlow Campus, 2019-2020
  • Assistant Lecturer in Industrial and Product Design, IT Carlow, Carlow Campus, 2019-2020
  • Relearn Rotterdam 2017, edition initiation, coordination with with Manetta Berends, Cristina Cochior, Roel Roscam Abbing and Silvio Lorusso http://relearn.be/2017
  • Hogeschool Gent (HoGent) 2015 with OSP http://opentools.schoolofarts.be/projecten.html#1
  • HTML2print Haute École des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg, with OSP http://comgraph.hear.fr/2015/03/html-sauce-cocktail/
  • Typojanchi Seoul workshop with OSP October 2013 http://typojanchi.org/2013/program_en/#contents OCR training
  • Relearn summer school 2013 project initiation, with OSP. Coordinated track: gesturing paths, relearn.be/r/worksessions::gesturing-paths::notes
→ publications
  • drawing curved (2018) (co-written with Pierre Huyghebaert) on the nature of digital curvature http//drawingcurved.osp.kitchen
  • adversarial.interfaces.site (2017) graduation project, critical research addressing interfaces http://adversarial.interfaces.site
  • tangible.tools (2017) thesis publication, on digital craft http://tangible.tools
  • 16 case stories: re-imagining the practice of layout (2012) european research project Libre Graphics Research Unit (LGRU) https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/lgru/co-position-catalog
→ skill set
  • bilingual English / French & basic knowledge of Dutch
  • abilities on GNU/UNIX platform, system implementations, server management
  • Python, Javascript, PHP, publishing tool development, code versioning systems