States of matter | Matters of the State

As described by GRANDEZA studio, Australia’s mining industry transforms its acquisitions into ‘spatiotemporal battlefields - that turn its sites and the rest of the planet, into sacrificed areas.’ This project situates itself in the discourse of the planetary energy transition in 21st Century Mining and looks towards an eco-mining future. This is a speculative architectural / worlding project that explores a new hybrid design process that consults AI video simulations, blends analogue scanning of ecological artifacts with digital spatial and formal explorations in gaming environments. The project proposes a Phyto Nickle Mine, Bath house & Courthouse as interference on the Yarra River in Melbourne and suggests that the current native claim could be more productive.

Georgia Rumble

RMIT Architecture Immersive Futures Lab

Athens digital art festival, 2025