ECT LAB+ - Key Persons
Abdellatif Atif is a Moroccan postdoctoral at the ECT+ Lab based in TU Dublin. In his Ph.D., he investigated the instrumentality of education to populist discourses. Today, he will suggest an ethics for the instrumentality of education that goes beyond the binarism of pro and anti-instrumentality. Instead, he will argue for an attentive instrumentality that recognizes its condition of being and makes it necessary, which is the incomplete character of all identities.
On return to Dublin she completed a Masters degree in digital media at Dublin Institute of Technology, and then worked for a number of years at Windmill Lane Pictures.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Associate
- Artist
Conor McGarrigle is an artist working primarily with new media. A graduate of UCD (BSc) and NCAD (MFA), he received his PhD through practice from DIT in 2012. He lectures in Fine Art at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, he was previously an Assistant Professor of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver and coordinated the MA Art in the Digital World at NCAD.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- Professor
Dominik Düber has been a professor for sustainability transformation, especially in the public sector, at h_da since January 2023.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- Graphic Artist
Ester is a Graphic artist, workshops facilitator & researcher. Interested in creative and innovative approaches to research and research methods and dissemination. Particularly Interested in participatory/contributory research, human scale design, embodiment, speculative fabulation and human and other-than-human relationships.
Arch. Ioana MOLDOVAN Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Dept. Civil Engineering and Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and holds an Invited Professor position at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (TUCN).
John O'connor is a Strategic Lead for Technological University Dublin at the European University of Technology (EUt+) and deeply engaged in shaping the future of higher education across borders.
With roots extending back to 1994 when John joined DIT, his journey has been marked by innovation, leadership, and a dedication to nurturing talent. Highlights include the development of the East Quad, on the university's Grangegorman campus, as home to the creative and cultural schools that make up the Faculty of Arts and Humanities; and founding the BA in Visual Art program, delivered on Sherkin Island, which garnered attention through a historic visit by President of Ireland Mary McAleese in 2010.
Additionally, John led the development of a Master's program aimed at strategically bolstering the Irish design sector and developed the module ‘Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?' delivered entirely in the virtual world Second Life®. his contributions to education have been recognized with awards such as the Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.
Beyond academia, John carved a path as a designer, founding Information Design and collaborating with national and international clients. My involvement in representative bodies, including being a founding member of Design Business Ireland, showcases his commitment to advancing the design industry. As a member of various boards and advisory groups, he has influenced educational and industry standards while advocating for the growth of design in Ireland.
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Member of the Core
Jye is an Assistant Lecturer in History of Art and Visual Cultures at TUDublin. His research interests include Cybernetics, Queer Ecology, Post-Colonial Art and Art Historiography.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Associate
- Artist, Writer
Michael O'Hara is an artist, writer and part-time lecturer in Sculpture at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). He is currently a PhD candidate at GradCAM in DIT.
Paul Hayes is a postdoc in TU Dublin whose research centres on the ethics of technology, with a special interest in the ethics of AI.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Core
- Artist
- Member of the European Artistic Research Network
- Professor
Noel Fitzpatrick is Professor of Philosophy at the Technological University Dublin and the Academic Lead at the European Culture and Technology Lab (ECT Lab+).
Prof. Fitzpatrick is also an artist, scholar, and creative technologist. He is broadly interested in the materiality of self-generative systems, (post-)digital objecthood, sound, image, data, electronic circuitry, perception, selfhood, landscapes, environments, and the media/technologies we rely upon to mediate, probe, interact, or otherwise engage with the former.
Prof. Fitzpatrick is a leading member of the European Artistic Research Network, SHARE and European Society of Aesthetics. He is a member of Ars Industrialis, (Founded by Bernard Stiegler) and a founding member of the Digital Studies Network at the l'institut de recherche et innovation (IRI) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Prof. Fitzpatrick has presented and published widely in the fields of Contemporary Theatre Studies, Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Science and Technology, Educational Research and Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis.
The current research of Professor Fitzpatrick is focused on the impact of digital technologies on the construction of knowledge (epistemology) and on cultural production (aesthetics). Noel has been awarded a number of research grants including NDRC, IRC, Marie-Curie Funding, he currently an expert evaluator on the H20:20 programme and co-ordinator of the Marie-Curie RISE project Real Smart Cities.
Santiago is an Early Stage Researcher at the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), also the founder of the Just Realities podcast, and president of the non-profit organisation Actionnable Science for Urban Sustainability (AScUS).
Santiago has contributed to academic and non-academic conferences and seminars around the world sharing the results of his research outcomes and co-creating research projects. He is an active member of the International Sustainable Development Society (ISDRS) and the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), and has been a member of the Hemispheric Institute, the Scottish Young Planners Network and the Instituto Colombian de Anthropologie e Historia.