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Aisling O'Carroll

...Aisling O'Carroll is a designer and researcher, trained in both architecture and landscape architecture. She is currently completing her GRS/ORS-funded PhD in Architectural Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where her work addresses the relations between history, narrative, and representation in architecture, landscape, geology, and hybrids of the three—examining, in particular, critical approaches to reconstruction as design. Since 2020, she has been Programme Coordinator for the graduate landscape architecture programmes at The Bartlett, where she also served as Interim Programme Director for Landscape Architecture between 2022 and 2023. She is Co-Founder and Co-Editor in Chief of The Site Magazine.

 

Works relevant to the Planetary

Book chapters & journal articles

  • O’Carroll, A.: Learning from La Vedette: Reconstructing Viollet-le-Duc’s Alpine study, in Lausanne, in Hill, J. (ed.) Designs on History: The Architect as Physical Historian (Design Stud, pp. 58­67. London: RIBA Publishing, 2021.
  • O’Carroll, A.: Panorama as Critical Restoration: Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc’s Study at La Vedette, in Bauer, D. and Murgia, C. (eds.) The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces 1750-1918, pp. 21–52. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
  • O’Carroll, A.: Reconstructing a Geological Monument: Le Massif de La Vedette, carte dressée à 1:40,000, in Badenoch, K. and Skandarajah, S. (eds.) Cartographies of the Imagination. London, 2021.
  • O’Carroll, A.: Reconstructing the Dent du Requin, in M’Closkey, K. M. and Keith VanDerSys, K. (eds.) “Geo,” LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, no. 12: pp. 86–93. 2020.
  • O’Carroll, A.: The Parkway: A Curated Legacy, MAS Context, 25–26: pp.86-107. 2015.
  • O’Carroll, A. et al. (eds.): The Site Magazine. https://www.thesitemagazine.com/.

Exhibitions

  • The Temple of Science - Fellowship project with the Panel on Planetary Thinking, Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, Germany. 2024.   
  • Le Massif de La Vedette: Carte Dressée à 1:40,000 - Cartographies of the Imagination, OmVed Gardens, London, United Kingdom. 2021.
  • Reconstructing Reconstructions - PhD Research Projects, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom. 2020.
  • Reconstructing a Geological Monument: Scientific and Speculative Methods in the Reconstruction of Viollet-le-Duc’s Study at La Vedette - Works+Words 2019 2nd Biennale for Artistic Research in Architecture, KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2019-2020.