Hollow body the tailings. A sublime 80m wide sphere located in the heart of a tailing, inspired by Cenotaph for Isaac Newton of Étienne-Louis Boullée, becomes a gathering space where ground "autopoiesis" can be translated into human language and applied to democratic principles. A post-human-architecture hidden into the iconic artefact of South African landscape alteration, a tailing, this building – Quoting Rosi Braidotti – offers the opportunity “acknowledge that subjectivity is not the exclusive prerogative of Anthropos [...] that matter is intelligent and self-organizing (autopoiesis); that the subject is not unitary but nomadic; and that subjectivity includes relations to a multitude of non-human ‘others. In this framework ‘life’ is not only defined as bias but also as a zoe-centred, non-human process”

From “Posthuman Critical Theory” (Rosi Braidotti 2018, p. 339 -340)