Re: Flin Flon Mine: Reaccessing a Site of Extraction

This thesis offers a design intervention for a copper-zinc mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba, considering a response to a landscape that is the marker of more than a century of resource extraction. Through interdisciplinary design-research tied to the context of the Anthropocene, the work explores the state of three mines in various stages of remediation, including their vast network of tailings ponds, open pits, underground shafts, and industrial structures. The research is based on site immersion, local outreach, historical document analysis, mapping and modelmaking. Theoretically, it draws from work across science and art disciplines, including relative to geology and works of land art that respond to industrial sites. Zooming in to the specific site of the Flin Flon Mine, it presents a remediation response connecting the site with two others, done through material gestures that emphasize access, a reintroduction of landscape icons, and passive soil treatment.