Mining territories, experimentation grounds
Mining territories are defined by their subsoil, shaped for centuries by their geology and the mineral extraction process. True theaters of the Anthropocene, they represent living testimonies of the rape earth rape, exploitation of populations, soil pollution, depletion of natural resources.
Can they become repair laboratories, post-carbon experimentation grounds?
This is the question that Master's students at the Lille School of Architecture and Landscape have been working on for four years. The four mining sites on which the students worked (Cité du 12-14 in Lens and Loos-en-Gohelle, Cité Nouméa in Rouvroy, Cité du Frais-Marais in Douai and Cité d'Arenberg in Wallers-Arenberg) have made it possible to draw up urban, architectural and landscape issues and responses. This exhibition allowed to establish a thematic classification of these works, based on the following terms: Landscape, soil, acclimatization, human, heritage, territory, materiality, experimentation, living...
