Reimagining Landscapes

Pre-studies

Based on the Munsö Löten gravel quarry on Ekerö, the Laisvall mine in Arjeplog and the Makadamen quarry in Åstorp, three pre-studies explore and develop methods, design principles and future scenarios for the sustainable transformation of industrial extraction landscapes.

Gro / Grund – Laisvall mine, Arjeplog

Through the closed Laisvallgruvan in Arjeplog, the pre-study Gro / Grund explores a remediated mining landscape. The pre-study examines how such a landscape can be understood, managed and further developed over time.

The team takes a long-term approach to management and maintenance as design and knowledge-building practices, where remediation is understood as an ongoing process. The pre-study examines how industrial landscapes can continue to develop after the primary restoration has been carried out, and what design methods are required to strengthen their ecological, cultural heritage and spatial values over the long term.

Där marken brutits – Munsö Löten, Ekerö

The pre-study Där marken brutits explores Munsö Löten, an active quarry landscape undergoing a gradual transition, as a site where industrial interventions and layers of cultural heritage coexist and are reinterpreted over time.

The team draws on restoration art, cultural heritage perspectives and remediation as a design practice. The pre-study focuses on the landscape’s physical structures as carriers of biological, spatial and aesthetic values, rather than as surfaces to be restored. Through site-responsive and design-based methods, the pre-study explores how relationships between industrial traces, topography, ecology and cultural heritage can be made visible, developed and understood as valuable resources in future transformation processes.

Brottet – Makadamen, Åstorp

Through the former Makadamen quarry in Åstorp, the pre-study Brottet explores how an industrial landscape can be further developed without making its traces, dependencies and history invisible. The study takes a material and landscape perspective, where remediation is understood as a design practice.

The team focuses on the relationships between water, vegetation, technical systems and social needs related to accessibility, management and future use. Through site studies, conversations and design-based analysis, the study develops scenarios for the site’s future. Starting from the understanding that materials and landscapes develop through the same long-term processes, the study explores questions of what is perceived as damaged, restored or healed.