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BIOGRAPHY

Carolyn is a designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work explores entanglements of humans, non-humans, bits, bytes, ecologies and emerging technologies. Operating somewhere at the fringes of reality, her projects materialize as surreal artifacts, animations, images, writings, and multi-sensory installations.

She currently holds teaching positions as Associate Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths University in London, and as Adjunct Professor within the School of Design Strategies at Parsons in New York. Carolyn is also part of the Designed Realities Studio, an interdisciplinary research and teaching platform led by Dunne & Raby. Previously she held a postdoctoral design fellowship supported by a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Carolyn’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. She completed her Master of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London.




PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


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Jan 2021  
- June 2021  

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ASSOCIATE LECTURER (STUDIO TUTOR)  /  BA Design, Y2  /  Goldsmiths University  /  London, UK. 
Oct 2020  
- May 2021  

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3D MAKING INTENSIVE INSTRUCTOR  /  Course: “Speculative & Discursive Studio”  with Elliott Montgomery and Radha Mistry  /   Transdisciplinary Design MFA  /  School of Design Strategies  /  Parsons School of Design, The New School  /  New York, USA.  
Jan 2021  
- Mar 2021  

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Aug 2020 
- Jan 2021  


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DESIGNED REALITIES STUDIO FELLOW  /  University Transdisciplinary Lab, led by Fiona Raby and Tony Dunne  /  The New School  /  New York, USA.
Aug 2018 
- Sep 2020  

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Jan 2020 
- Jun 2020  


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Aug 2019 
- Jan 2020  


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POSTDOCTORAL SAWYER SEMINAR FELLOW  /  “Imaginative Mobilities” Interdisciplinary Seminar Series  /  Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  /  Hosted by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility  /  The New School for Social Research (NSSR), The New School  / New York, USA. 
Aug 2018 
- Sep 2019  



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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER  /  Atomik Architecture  /  London, UK.
Oct 2017 
- July 2018  

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER  /  DSDHA  /  London, UK.
July 2016 
- Sep 2016  

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER  /  Henning Larsen Architects  /  Munich, Germany.
Aug 2014 
- July 2015  

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER  /  Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei  /  Stuttgart, Germany.
Aug 2011 
- Aug 2011  

EDUCATION

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MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE (ARB / RIBA Part II), with Distinction  /  Royal College of Art  /  London, UK. 
Sep 2015 
- June 2017  

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BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE (ARB/RIBA Part I), First Class Degree  /  University of Nottingham  / Nottingham, UK. 
Sep 2011 
- July 2014  

EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES

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ONLINE EXHIBITION -- Arctic Makes: Mastering the Remoteness  /  Arctic Sustainable Arts & Design Thematic Network (ASAD)  /  10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS X)  /  Tomsk State University  /  Arkhangelsk, Russia.
June 2021


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SOLO EXHIBITION -- Data Creatures  /  “At the Border” Research Program  /  A/D/O  /  Brooklyn, USA (cancelled due to COVID-19).
Mar-Apr 2020 


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EXHIBITION -- Realists of a Larger Reality: Globes  /  Collaboration with Dunne & Raby  / “Neurons, Simulated Intelligences”  /  Centre Pompidou  /  Paris, France.
Feb-Apr 2020  

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RESIDENCY -- “At the Border” Research Program  /  curated by Jan Boelen and Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence  /  A/D/O  /  Brooklyn, USA.
Nov 2019 
- Mar 2020  

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EXHIBITION -- Realists of a Larger Reality: Globes  /  Collaboration with Dunne & Raby  /  “Alternatives for Living: Blueprints for Haus Lange Haus Esters”  /  Kunstmuseen Krefeld  /  Krefeld, Germany 
May 2019 
- Nov 2019  


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EXHIBITION -- Somewhere Around Here  /  “10x10 Drawing the City”  /  Article 25 Charity Event  /  Royal Institute of British Architects  /  London, UK. 
Nov 2017 

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EXHIBITION -- “Show 2017: School of Architecture”  /  The Workshop  /  London, UK.
June-July 2017 

TALKS & CONFERENCES

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CONFERENCE -- “Electronic Visions of the Arctic Ocean”  /  Session: Arctic Design: Best Practices from the Geographic Periphery  /  10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS X)  /  Tomsk State University  /  Arkhangelsk, Russia.
June 2021


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TALK + DISCUSSION -- “Algorithmic Wilderness”  /  Creative Science Track  /  NEW INC   /  New Museum  /  New York, USA.
Oct 2020


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GUEST LECTURE -- “Artists Navigating Digital Borders”  /  Currents: Digital Borders  /  School of Art, Media & Technology  /  Parsons School of Design, The New School  /  New York, USA.
Sep 2020


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TALK -- “NO_POLE”  /  Integrated Digital Media Colloqium  /  Liberal Studies & Tandom School of Engineering  /  New York University (NYU)  /  New York, USA.
Mar 2020


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TALK -- “NO_POLE”  /  2020 Community Share-Out  /  Virtual.
Mar 2020


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CONFERENCE -- “Remote Sensing the Arctic: An Exploration of Non-Western and Non-Human Perspectives of the Territory”  /  Session: Ethics and Relationality  /  EGSO Conference on ‘Proximity’  /  Cornell University  /  Ithaca, USA.   
Mar 2020


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GUEST LECTURE -- “What is Speculative Design”  /  Research and Development Methods Course /  Strategic Design and Management (BBA)  /  School of Design Strategies  /  Parsons School of Design, The New School  /  New York, USA.
Nov 2019 


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PANEL DISCUSSION -- Artists Navigating Digital Borders Salon  /  Anti-Customs Enforcement (ACE) Collective  /  Culture Hub  /  New York, USA.
Nov 2020


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GUEST LECTURE -- “NO_POLE”  /  Visual, Spatial, Material Politics Course  /  Department of Politics  /  The New School for Social Research (NSSR), The New School  /  New York, USA.
Nov 2020


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CONFERENCE -- “NO_POLE”  /  Session: Reimagining Migration and Mobility—Within and Beyond Borders  /  Critical Edge Alliance Conference  /  The New School  /  New York, USA.
June 2019 


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TALK -- Presentation of Thesis Work  /  Invited Alumni Talk  /  Royal College of Art  /  London, UK.
Feb 2018 


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CONFERENCE -- “AKDM—The City of Non-Existent Humans”  /  Session: Into the Void – Death and Non-Existence  /  Imaginaries of the Future Symposium: Utopia After the Human  /  Leverhulme International Research Network  /  Cornell University  /  Ithaca, USA.

Apr 2017 

PUBLICATIONS

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ESSAY -- Kirschner, C.  /  “Sensor Landscapes”  /  The Polar Silk Road by Gregor Sailer.
forthcoming


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EDITED VOLUME -- Kirschner, C.  /  Title to be confirmed  /  Visual Ecologies of Placemaking ed. Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart  /  Bloomsbury Publishing.
forthcoming


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JOURNAL PUBLICATION -- Kirschner, C.  /  “NO_POLE: Data-Scapes and Digital Ecologies”  /  Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal  /  vol. 54, MIT Press.
forthcoming


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JOURNAL PUBLICATION -- Kirschner, C.  /  “Remote Sensing the Arctic: An Exploration of Non-Human Perspectives of the Territory”  /  Evental Aesthetics  /  Vol. 10 No. 1.
Mar 2021


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PRESS FEATURE -- Kucharek, J.-C.  /  “Eye Line 2018”  /  RIBA Journal  /  vol. 125, no. 08, pp. 67-81.

Aug 2018 

VISITING GUEST CRITIC

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ARCHITECTURE, MA  /  School of Architecture  /  Royal College of Art  /  London, UK.


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ARCHITECTURE, MA  /  Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)  /  Columbia University  /  New York, USA.

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TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN, MFA  /  School of Design Strategies  /  Parsons School of Design  /  The New School  /  New York, USA.


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INTERIOR DESIGN, MFA  /  School of Constructed Environments  /  Parsons School of Design  /  The New School  /  New York, USA.


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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, MFA  /  School of Constructed Environments  /  Parsons School of Design  /  The New School  /  New York, USA.


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DESIGNED REALITIES STUDIO  /  University Transdisciplinary Lab  /  The New School  /  New York, USA.



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