Aisling O'Carroll

Aisling O’Carroll is a landscape architect, trained in both architecture and landscape architecture. Following her studies in architecture at Waterloo, she completed her Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where she received the Thesis Prize and Charles Eliot Fellowship. She is currently completing her PhD in Architectural Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, funded by UCL’s Graduate Research Scholarship and Overseas Research Scholarship. Her research and design practice 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. This work draws on concepts and practices from a range of fields, including archaeology, geology, science and technology studies, and art history, and explores the capacity for design to open up critical conversations and debates about the politics of landscape and architecture. 

Aisling has taught graduate design studios at The Bartlett, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the University of Toronto and has practiced internationally for several years with design firms and research platforms. She is currently the Year Coordinator for the MLA/MA Landscape Architecture programme at The Bartlett. She is co-founder and co-editor in chief of The Site Magazine. @thesitemagazine