Project Global: Ground

This exploration of our current day metropolitan condition as a system of systems deals with the crust of the Earth as a primary carrying capacitor of human activities, from the extraction of resources deep within the ground, to agricultural operations that barely scratch the surface.

Part 1: Lexicon index

︎ Formation

︎ Kaapvaal Craton
︎ Johannesburg Dome
︎ Vredefort Dome
︎ Topsoil
︎ Müggelsee

︎ Measurement ︎ Schwerbelastungskörper
︎ Mining Earthquakes
︎ Low-tech Soil Testing
︎ Soil Texture Triangle
︎ Geologic Time Scale
︎ Stratigraphic Colum
︎ Geographic Information System
︎ Ecotone
︎ Cultural Landscape

︎ Prototype
︎ Unter den Linden
︎ Zoological Landscape
︎ Counterculture
︎ Cultural Agency
︎ Mine-pit Lakes
︎ Parliament of Things

︎ Land distribution
︎ 1913 Natives Land Act
︎ District Six
︎ Eavesdropping
︎ Reconciliation Policy
︎ Land Grabbing
︎ Land Acting
︎ The Red Ants
︎ #PutSouthAfricansFirst
︎ Suburban Enclaves
︎ Parallel State

︎ Extraction
︎ Cullinan Diamond Mine
︎ Platinum Group Metals
︎ Zamazamas
︎ Gold Rush Inertia
︎ Sinkhole
︎ Maize Doctor
︎ Coal Hands

︎ Infrastructure
︎ Gautrain
︎ Le-guba
︎ Lesotho Water Project
︎ Deutscher Wald
︎ Arrival City

︎ Production
︎ Safari Economy
︎ Agritourism
︎ Rainfall Line
︎ Upington Airport
︎ Tiergarten Transformation
︎ Pivot Irrigation
︎ Allotment Garden
︎ Bokoni Terracing
︎ Johannesburg Forestation
︎ Game Farming Cycle

︎ Waste
︎ Trümmerberg
︎ Fab-Soil
︎ Mining Waste Belt
︎ Sanitary Landfilling
︎ Soil Structure
︎ Biogas Technology

︎ Pollution
︎ Dry Stacked Tailings
︎ Water Pollution
︎ Soil Pollution
︎ Uranium Sandstorms
︎ Poaching

︎ Remediation
︎ European Green Belt
︎ Conservation Agriculture
︎ Airfield Urbanism
︎ Solar Park
︎ Gold Reef City
︎ Mine Pit Lake
︎ Loess Plateau
︎ Erosion Control

Project Global: Ground

Part 1: Lexicon

Part 2: Atlas

Part 3: Architectural Projects

Production: Industries and systems that create goods and services that are explicitly not mining-focused, or were established to supplement or support mining operations.