Caitlin Jakusz Paridy

Caitlin Jakusz Paridy is a PhD student employing spatial-temporal mapping methodologies to evidence settler colonial regimes within Canada’s digital mining infrastructure. Her research seeks to understand how the influx of mine claims through online portals such as the Mining Land Administration System has reinforced or reshaped spatial imaginaries of remote, northern landscapes.

Coming from architecture and landscape architecture, her approach combines technological methodologies such as GIS and remote sensing with artistic methodologies such as sound recording, collage, and model making, to visualise hidden systems and relationships which make up these environments. Through this analysis she aims to challenge the portal’s flattened representation and management of this land and evidence how these claims impact consent and consultation processes with local communities and Indigenous Nations.

This approach builds on past research counter-mapping extractive landscapes across Svalbard and Sápmi through their cryogenic processes and traditional practices, alongside work (re)storying wild rice restoration efforts in the Great Lakes Region through drawings and interviews.

Publications

Paridy, Caitlin Jakusz. “An Eulogy for Foxfonna Glacier.” NOIA Journal 3 (2023): 26-27.

Paridy, Caitlin Jakusz. “Dissolving the Carolinfjellet Formation.” Galt Publication ‘Seeds’ no. 5 (2024): 115-125.

Paridy, Caitlin Jakusz. “Palliative Design for a High Arctic Landscape.” In Arctic Practices – Design for a Changing World, edited by Bert De Jonghe, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Michael Bravo. New York: Actar Publishers (2025): p. 397-403.

Supervisor

Dr. Michael Ekers