Caitlin Jakusz Paridy is a landscape designer and researcher based in London, UK.

She is drawn to environmentally sensitive projects which broaden our relationship to and understanding of natural systems, while also considering the impact of climate change on communities and landscapes at a local and territorial level. 

Her research applies this approach to Sub-Arctic landscapes of extraction in so-called Canada through material studies, sound recording and temporal-material mapping.



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Caitlin Jakusz Paridy is a landscape architect and researcher based in London, UK.

She is drawn to environmentally senstive projects which broaden our relationship to and understanding of natural systems, while also considering the impact of climate change on communities and landscapes at a local and territorial level.

Her research applies this approach to Arctic/Sub-Arctic landscapes and processes through material studies, sound recording and temporal-material mapping.



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RING OF FIRE

Spatial investigation of the Ring of Fire mine development located on Treaty 9 territory in so-called Canada. 

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CRYOSTRATIGRAPHY

Tracing the spatial influence of cryogenic materials within an anthropogenically modified landscape. Inspired by cryostratigraphy,1 this work traces the spatial influence of cryogenic materials within an anthropogenically modified landscape. More specifically this series, explores the influence of meltwater in various states within the Lunheim Quarry.

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LA/RE
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PALLIATIVE DESIGN FOR THE AFTERLIFE OF MINE#7

With the forthcoming closure of the last Norwegian coal mine in Longyearbyen, coinciding with climate change and increased glacial melt, Svalbard’s relationship to
its cryogenic landscape is increasingly uncertain.

To ease this relationship from one state to another, this project proposes a palliative design strategy for the decommissioning of Mine #7.

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LA/UiT+AHO
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LEARNING FROM MANOOMIN

This thesis spatilizes three initiatives restoring Manoomin
(wild rice) in the Great Lakes Basin with drawings, reflections, and conversation. These document the evolution of the land through the “restorying” of relationships, following principles such as Vanessa Watt’s “Place-Thought” and
Willie Ermine’s “Ethical Space”.

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ARCH/UW
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LUNHEIM QUARRY

Tracing the spatial influence of cryogenic materials within an anthropogenically modified landscape. This series works with a point cloud model of the Lunheim Quarry to represent the movement of the cryosphere within anthropogenically modified Arctic landscapes.

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LA/RE
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MOBILITY AS STRATEGY

Speculative in its approach, this projects core intent is to assert the importance of landscape architectural methods within the Norwegian landscape assessment process as they may ensure elements such as Sámi land rights, additional
time-frames, scales, and more-than-human beings are meaningfully considered.

Collaboration with Aniella Sophie Goldinger

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LA/UiT+AHO
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ATMOSPHERIC BORDERS 

Snapshots of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, James Bay Treaty No 9, Traditional Territory of the Oji-Cree and Cree First Nations.

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DISSOLVING THE CAROLINFJELLET FORMATION

Engaging and connecting to Svalbard’s geological processes,
this project mends the harbours disrupted relationship between the sediments of the Carolinfjellet Formation and Longyearbyen’s coastline.

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LA/UiT+AHO
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QUESTIONING PERMANENCE

Given the significance of permafrosts scale and distribution across the Arctic, landscape architects working in these areas will address frozen ground at some time or another. With rising temperatures rapidly increasing the visible fluidity of “permanently frozen ground” across the Arctic, a deeper reading of these conditions and their temporal-material-spatial impacts is needed.

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RELATING TO SOIL

Inspired by the soil cultivation techniques used for centuries by fisher-farmers in the North of Norway, this project proposes a matrix strategy for the remediation of soil across Bodø’s Hernes Peninsula.

This was developped through fieldwork methodology and material studies which cultivated my own relationship to Arctic soil.

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LA/UiT+AHO
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FIELDWORK - LONGYEARBYEN

From March 6th to March 20th, 2023 I stayed in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Here I collected images, reflections, conversations, 3D scans, and sketches to support the design of a decommissioning plan for Mine #7.

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