2018 - 2024
2018 - 2024
2024
2024
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
2021 - 2022
2021 - 2022
2018 - 2019
2018 - 2019
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016
2015 - 2016
CONTACT
carolyn.kirschner@hotmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
Carolyn is a designer and researcher with a
background in architecture.
Her work explores the growing (and often strange) entanglements of
ecologies and machines in the context of the climate crisis.
Working with scientific tools, simulation
engines, digital fabrication, and environmental data, she conjures
fragments from alternate or expanded worlds—with a particular interest
in realms which lie beyond the reach of human senses.
Carolyn is a Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths, University of London, and previously taught at Parsons
School of Design in New York. She was the recipient of a Postdoctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship at The New
School, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018-19); was a fellow of the Designed Realities Studio, an interdisciplinary
research and teaching platform led by Dunne & Raby (2018-20); and has held residencies at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2022), A/D/O Brooklyn (2019-20), and soon at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station via Ars Bioarctica (2026). She is currently a S+T+ARTS EC(H)O Resident at TU Dresden (2025).
Carolyn’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. She completed
her Master of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
CONTACT
carolyn.kirschner@hotmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
Carolyn is a designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work explores the growing (and often strange) entanglements of ecologies and machines in the context of the climate crisis. Working with scientific tools, simulation engines, digital fabrication, and environmental data, she conjures fragments from alternate or expanded worlds—with a particular interest in realms which lie beyond the reach of human senses.
Carolyn is a Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths, University of London, and previously taught at Parsons School of Design in New York. She was the recipient of a Postdoctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship at The New School, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018-19); was a fellow of the Designed Realities Studio, an interdisciplinary research and teaching platform led by Dunne & Raby (2018-20); and has held residencies at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2022), A/D/O Brooklyn (2019-20), and soon at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station via Ars Bioarctica (2026). She is currently a S+T+ARTS EC(H)O Resident at TU Dresden (2025).
Carolyn’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. She completed her Master of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
carolyn.kirschner@hotmail.com
BIOGRAPHY
Carolyn is a designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work explores the growing (and often strange) entanglements of ecologies and machines in the context of the climate crisis. Working with scientific tools, simulation engines, digital fabrication, and environmental data, she conjures fragments from alternate or expanded worlds—with a particular interest in realms which lie beyond the reach of human senses.
Carolyn is a Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths, University of London, and previously taught at Parsons School of Design in New York. She was the recipient of a Postdoctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship at The New School, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018-19); was a fellow of the Designed Realities Studio, an interdisciplinary research and teaching platform led by Dunne & Raby (2018-20); and has held residencies at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2022), A/D/O Brooklyn (2019-20), and soon at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station via Ars Bioarctica (2026). She is currently a S+T+ARTS EC(H)O Resident at TU Dresden (2025).
Carolyn’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. She completed her Master of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.
QUALIFICATIONS
2015 - 2017
Royal College of Art (UK) / MA Architecture.
QUALIFICATIONS
2015 - 2017
Royal College of Art (UK) / MA Architecture.
2011 - 2014
University of Nottingham (UK) / BArch Architecture
2011 - 2014
University of Nottingham (UK) / BArch Architecture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 - now
Lecturer in Design / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 - now
Lecturer in Design / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2022 - 2023
Speculative Design Mentor / Vinnova, Swedish National Innovation Agency (SE).
2022 - 2023
Speculative Design Mentor / Vinnova, Swedish National Innovation Agency (SE).
2019 - 2023
Adjunct Professor / Parsons School of Design (USA).
2019 - 2023
Adjunct Professor / Parsons School of Design (USA).
2021 - 2022
Research Officer /
Erasmus+ Speculative Edu Grant / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2021 - 2022
Research Officer /
Erasmus+ Speculative Edu Grant / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2020 - 2021
Associate Lecturer in Design / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2020 - 2021
Associate Lecturer in Design / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2017 - 2018
Architectural Assistant (Part II) / Atomik Architecture (UK).
2017 - 2018
Architectural Assistant (Part II) / Atomik Architecture (UK).
2016
Architectural Assistant (Part I) / DSDHA (UK).
2016
Architectural Assistant (Part I) / DSDHA (UK).
2014 - 2015
Architectural Assistant (Part I) / Henning Larsen Architects (DE).
2014 - 2015
Architectural Assistant (Part I) / Henning Larsen Architects (DE).
2010 - 2011
Architectural Designer / Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei (DE).
2010 - 2011
Architectural Designer / Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei (DE).
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2024 - 2025
TU Dresden (DE) / S+T+ARTS EC(H)O Residency.
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2024 - 2025
TU Dresden (DE) / S+T+ARTS EC(H)O Residency.
2025
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (FI) / Ars Bioarctica Residency.
2025
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (FI) / Ars Bioarctica Residency.
2022 - 2023
City Science Lab, HafenCity University Hamburg (DE) / Climate City meets Creative Coding.
2022 - 2023
City Science Lab, HafenCity University Hamburg (DE) / Climate City meets Creative Coding.
2022
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE) / ‘Beyond Matter’ Residency.
2022
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE) / ‘Beyond Matter’ Residency.
2019 - 2020
A/D/O (USA) / ‘At the Border’ Residency.
2019 - 2020
A/D/O (USA) / ‘At the Border’ Residency.
2018 - 2020
The New School (USA) / Designed Realities Studio Fellowship.
2018 - 2020
The New School (USA) / Designed Realities Studio Fellowship.
2018 - 2019
The New School (USA) / Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility / Postdoctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship.
2018 - 2019
The New School (USA) / Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility / Postdoctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship.
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Museum of Modern Art Medellin (CO) / ‘Summoning Ghosts of Modernity’.
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Museum of Modern Art Medellin (CO) / ‘Summoning Ghosts of Modernity’.
2024
Milan Design Week (IT) / DOPO? Space / ‘Sit, Feast on Your Life’.
2024
Milan Design Week (IT) / DOPO? Space / ‘Sit, Feast on Your Life’.
2023 - 2024
MUDAC Lausanne (FR) / ‘Space is the Place’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2023 - 2024
MUDAC Lausanne (FR) / ‘Space is the Place’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2023
JUPITER, Hamburg (DE) / City Climate meets Creative Coding Festival.
2023
JUPITER, Hamburg (DE) / City Climate meets Creative Coding Festival.
2022 - 2023
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE) / ‘Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter’.
2022 - 2023
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE) / ‘Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter’.
2022
FRAC Centre (FR) / ‘Paysages du Design’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2022
FRAC Centre (FR) / ‘Paysages du Design’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2021
COP26 / ‘CreateCOP26’ (virtual exhibition).
2021
COP26 / ‘CreateCOP26’ (virtual exhibition).
2021
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, ICASS X / ‘Arctic Makes: Mastering the Remoteness’ (virtual exhibition).
2021
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, ICASS X / ‘Arctic Makes: Mastering the Remoteness’ (virtual exhibition).
2020
A/D/O (USA) / ‘Data Creatures’.
2020
A/D/O (USA) / ‘Data Creatures’.
2020
Centre Pompidou (FR) / ‘Neurons, Simulated Intelligences’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2020
Centre Pompidou (FR) / ‘Neurons, Simulated Intelligences’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2019
Kunstmuseen Krefeld (DE) / ‘Alternatives for Living’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2019
Kunstmuseen Krefeld (DE) / ‘Alternatives for Living’ (collaboration with Dunne & Raby).
2018
RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects (UK) / ‘10x10 Drawing the City’.
2018
RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects (UK) / ‘10x10 Drawing the City’.
2017
The Workshop (UK) / ‘Show 2017’.
2017
The Workshop (UK) / ‘Show 2017’.
TALKS & CONFERENCES
2025
ARTIST TALK / Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano Medellin (CO) / International Academic Seminar of the Master’s in Digital Arts, MAD.
TALKS & CONFERENCES
2025
ARTIST TALK / Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano Medellin (CO) / International Academic Seminar of the Master’s in Digital Arts, MAD.
2024
CONFERENCE / National Library of Latvia (LV) / RIXC Art Science Festival 2024: Symbiotic Sense(s), Open Fields Conference.
2024
CONFERENCE / National Library of Latvia (LV) / RIXC Art Science Festival 2024: Symbiotic Sense(s), Open Fields Conference.
2024
SYMPOSIUM / Hacte, Barcelona Hub of Art, Science and Technology (ES) / S+T+ARTS Symposium: Exploring the Intersections of Arts, Science, Technology and Society as Catalysts for Change.
2024
SYMPOSIUM / Hacte, Barcelona Hub of Art, Science and Technology (ES) / S+T+ARTS Symposium: Exploring the Intersections of Arts, Science, Technology and Society as Catalysts for Change.
2024
CONFERENCE / Birkbeck, University of London (UK) / London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research / Myths, Archetypes and Symbols: Models and Alternatives.
2024
CONFERENCE / Birkbeck, University of London (UK) / London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research / Myths, Archetypes and Symbols: Models and Alternatives.
2024
CONFERENCE / University of Palermo (IT) / Narratives and the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
2024
CONFERENCE / University of Palermo (IT) / Narratives and the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
2023
ARTIST TALK / Centre Pompidou (FR) / Moviment Festival.
2023
ARTIST TALK / Centre Pompidou (FR) / Moviment Festival.
2022
ARTIST TALK / ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE).
2022
ARTIST TALK / ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE).
2022
CONFERENCE / The New Institute (DE) / Eco-Scenarios.
2022
CONFERENCE / The New Institute (DE) / Eco-Scenarios.
2022
GUEST LECTURE / MA Design: Expanded Practice, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2022
GUEST LECTURE / MA Design: Expanded Practice, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2021
CONFERENCE / Oslo Metropolitain University (NO) / FeLt 4th Renewable Futures Conference.
2021
CONFERENCE / Oslo Metropolitain University (NO) / FeLt 4th Renewable Futures Conference.
2021
SYMPOSIUM / Tomsk State University (RU) / Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes.
2021
SYMPOSIUM / Tomsk State University (RU) / Relate North 2021: Everyday Extremes.
2020
CONFERENCE / ICASS X (RU) / 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences.
2020
CONFERENCE / ICASS X (RU) / 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences.
2020
TALK / New Inc, The New Museum (USA) / Creative Science Track.
2020
TALK / New Inc, The New Museum (USA) / Creative Science Track.
2020
GUEST LECTURE /
Parsons School of Design (USA) / School of Art, Media & Technology.
2020
GUEST LECTURE /
Parsons School of Design (USA) / School of Art, Media & Technology.
2020
COLLOQUIUM /
NYU (USA) / Integrated Digital Media Colloquium.
2020
COLLOQUIUM /
NYU (USA) / Integrated Digital Media Colloquium.
2020
ARTIST TALK / A/D/O (USA).
2020
ARTIST TALK / A/D/O (USA).
2020
CONFERENCE / Cornell University (USA) / EGSO Conference on Proximity.
2020
CONFERENCE / Cornell University (USA) / EGSO Conference on Proximity.
2020
GUEST LECTURE / Parsons School of Design (USA) / School of Design Strategies.
2020
GUEST LECTURE / Parsons School of Design (USA) / School of Design Strategies.
2019
PANEL DISCUSSION / Culture Hub (USA) / Artists Navigating Digital Borders.
2019
PANEL DISCUSSION / Culture Hub (USA) / Artists Navigating Digital Borders.
2019
GUEST LECTURE / NSSR New School for Social Research (USA) / School of Politics.
2019
GUEST LECTURE / NSSR New School for Social Research (USA) / School of Politics.
2019
CONFERENCE / The New School (USA) / Critical Edge Alliance.
2019
CONFERENCE / The New School (USA) / Critical Edge Alliance.
2018
PANEL DISCUSSION /
Innovate UK, Digital Catapult (UK) / Immersive Technologies in Architecture and Design.
2018
PANEL DISCUSSION /
Innovate UK, Digital Catapult (UK) / Immersive Technologies in Architecture and Design.
2018
ALUMNI TALK / Royal College of Art (UK).
2018
ALUMNI TALK / Royal College of Art (UK).
2017
CONFERENCE / Cornell University (USA) / Imaginaries of the Future: Utopia After the Human.
2017
CONFERENCE / Cornell University (USA) / Imaginaries of the Future: Utopia After the Human.
PUBLICATIONS
forthcoming
CHAPTER IN EDITED VOLUME / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Digital Arctic: Through Machine Eyes.” In Visual Ecologies of Placemaking, edited by Pamela Stewart and Leslie Atzmon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
PUBLICATIONS
forthcoming
CHAPTER IN EDITED VOLUME / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Digital Arctic: Through Machine Eyes.” In Visual Ecologies of Placemaking, edited by Pamela Stewart and Leslie Atzmon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
forthcoming
ILLUSTRATIONS & PROJECT FEATURE / Dunne, Anthony and Fiona Raby. Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination. Boston: MIT Press.
forthcoming
ILLUSTRATIONS & PROJECT FEATURE / Dunne, Anthony and Fiona Raby. Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination. Boston: MIT Press.
2023
CHAPTER IN EDITED VOLUME / Preiß, Cecilia and Kirschner, Carolyn. “Iconoclash: Slow Squeeze. In conversation with Carolyn Kirschner.” In Beyond Matter – Within Space: Curatorial and Art Mediation Techniques on the Verge of Virtual Reality, edited by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás and Marianne Schädler, pp. 452-457. Berlin: Hatje Cantz.
2023
CHAPTER IN EDITED VOLUME / Preiß, Cecilia and Kirschner, Carolyn. “Iconoclash: Slow Squeeze. In conversation with Carolyn Kirschner.” In Beyond Matter – Within Space: Curatorial and Art Mediation Techniques on the Verge of Virtual Reality, edited by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás and Marianne Schädler, pp. 452-457. Berlin: Hatje Cantz.
2022
MAGAZINE FEATURE / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Rug in the Shape of the Shadow of a Polar Bear” in NOIA Magazine, vol. 2.
2022
MAGAZINE FEATURE / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Rug in the Shape of the Shadow of a Polar Bear” in NOIA Magazine, vol. 2.
2022
RESEARCH ARTICLE / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Ecological Imaginaries” for The New Institute (online).
2022
RESEARCH ARTICLE / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Ecological Imaginaries” for The New Institute (online).
2022
PROJECT FEATURE / Kirschner, Carolyn. “The London Institute of ‘Pataphysics”. In Experimental Realism (Project Store), edited by Gem Barton (online).
2022
PROJECT FEATURE / Kirschner, Carolyn. “The London Institute of ‘Pataphysics”. In Experimental Realism (Project Store), edited by Gem Barton (online).
2021
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL / Kirschner, Carolyn. “NO_POLE: Datascapes and Digital Ecologies.” In Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, vol. 54, pp. 255-265. Boston: MIT Press.
2021
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL / Kirschner, Carolyn. “NO_POLE: Datascapes and Digital Ecologies.” In Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, vol. 54, pp. 255-265. Boston: MIT Press.
2021
BOOK CHAPTER / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Sensor Landscapes.” In The Polar Silk Road, by Gregor Sailer, pp. 256-260. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag.
2021
BOOK CHAPTER / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Sensor Landscapes.” In The Polar Silk Road, by Gregor Sailer, pp. 256-260. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag.
2021
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Remote Sensing the Arctic: An Exploration of Non-Human Perspectives of the Territory.” In Evental Aesthetics: Aesthetic Intersections 4, vol. 10, pp. 3-28.
2021
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL / Kirschner, Carolyn. “Remote Sensing the Arctic: An Exploration of Non-Human Perspectives of the Territory.” In Evental Aesthetics: Aesthetic Intersections 4, vol. 10, pp. 3-28.
2018
PRESS FEATURE / Kucharek, Jan-Carlos. “Eye Line 2018”. In RIBA Journal, vol. 125.
2018
PRESS FEATURE / Kucharek, Jan-Carlos. “Eye Line 2018”. In RIBA Journal, vol. 125.
AWARDS
2023
Prize Funding Award / City Science Lab Hamburg & German Federal Cultural Foundation (DE).
AWARDS
2023
Prize Funding Award / City Science Lab Hamburg & German Federal Cultural Foundation (DE).
2022
Research & Enterprise Funding / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2022
Research & Enterprise Funding / Goldsmiths, University of London (UK).
2019
Production Grant / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA).
2019
Production Grant / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA).
2018
Commended for Eye Line Competition (UK).
2018
Commended for Eye Line Competition (UK).
2017
Dissertation Distinction / Royal College of Art (UK).
2017
Dissertation Distinction / Royal College of Art (UK).
2016
Nominated for the West London RIBA Student Award (UK).
2016
Nominated for the West London RIBA Student Award (UK).
2015
Winning Project / Across RCA / Helen Hamlyn Research Centre & Satellite Applications Catapult (UK).
2015
Winning Project / Across RCA / Helen Hamlyn Research Centre & Satellite Applications Catapult (UK).
GUEST CRITIC
2024
Chalmers University of Technology (SE).
GUEST CRITIC
2024
Chalmers University of Technology (SE).
2019 - 2021
Royal College of Art (UK).
2019 - 2021
Royal College of Art (UK).
2019
Columbia University (USA).
2019
Columbia University (USA).
2018 - 2020
Parsons School of Design (USA).
2018 - 2020
Parsons School of Design (USA).