Chair Post Mining

Context: Post-mining territories around the world Post-mining territories, descendants of an ecologically destructive sectoral economy, still bear the scars of unsustainable development mode, whose effects art still to be dealt with. Fragile territories, both visible and invisible, often turned into “heritage”, they offer contemporary situations where experimentation with transitions to a post-carbon society finds its particular relevance. Challenges: acclimatizisation Taking the term “climate” in a meteorological sense, but also in social, ecological and economic senses, the challenge is to question the design tools and methods of project developpement in situations that combine heritage quality, environmental degradation, energy insecurity and social fragility Target: The network focuses on the future of former mining territories in their spatial, socio-economic, ecological, landscape, or even aesthetic dimensions. Its ambition is to bring together research teams, educators, and other stakeholders from all over the world, involved in the fields of design (architecture, urban planning, landscape, art, etc.). Its objective, in particular, is to develop research tools for design.