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About

Aisling O'Carroll is a designer, researcher, and licensed landscape architect, trained in both architecture and landscape architecture. Her practice and pedagogy integrate design with history and theory methods to address pressing social, ecological, and environmental issues. Her present research examines critical and experimental approaches to reconstruction as design. This work addresses the relations between landscape architecture and interdisciplinary fields including architecture, geology, and climate science, drawing on concepts and practices from a range of fields including science and technology studies, feminist studies, archaeology, and art history. Her experimental reconstructions and research have been exhibited internationally, including at Het Nieuwe Instituut, OmVed Gardens, and the Royal Danish Academy, and published widely, including with LA+ Journal, RIBA Press, and Amsterdam University Press. 

Aisling is currently Lecturer (Teaching) at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she served as Interim Programme Director for Landscape Architecture between 2022 and 2023, and as Programme Coordinator for Landscape Architecture from 2020 to 2023. She has previously taught seminars and design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Bartlett, and University of Toronto, and has practiced internationally with design firms and research platforms. She is co-founder and co-editor in chief of The Site Magazine. She is currently completing her GRS/ORS-funded PhD in Architectural Design at The Bartlett.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in Architectural Design
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2017–ongoing

Master in Landscape Architecture
(Distinction)
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2012

Bachelor of Architectural Studies
(Distinction, Dean's Honour Role)
University of Waterloo, School of Architecture
2009

Current Practice and Research

Scenographic Land
2016–ongoing

The Site Magazine
Co-Founder and Co-Editor in Chief
2016–ongoing

Teaching and Academia

Programme Co-Director, MLA/MA Landscape Architecture (interim)
The Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL
Dec 2022–June 2023

Lecturer (Teaching)
Year Coordinator, MLA/MA Landscape Architecture
The Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL
Fall 2020–ongoing

Sessional Lecturer, MLA Landscape Architecture
Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
Fall 2020–ongoing

Thesis supervisor, MArch Architecture and MLA Landscape Architecture
The Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL
Spring-Summer 2020

Teaching Fellow, Urban Design MArch
Research Cluster 11 tutor
The Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL
2017–2018

Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
MArch Architecture and MLA Landscape Architecture
Graduate Design Studio
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2015

Invited critic and external reviewer

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design; Rhode Island School of Design; University of Tennessee, College of Architecture and Design; Hong Kong University, Faculty of Architecture; KADK, Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark; Boston Architecture College, 2013–ongoing