REWILDING

INHABITING BORDERLAND｜2022

The recovery and re-inhabitation of polluted and toxic landscapes are urgent agendas in the transformation of deindustrializing regions. This project focuses on rewilding the industrial land along the Detroit River, embracing current and former industrial operations, recognizing wildlife amidst the thick layers of legacy pollution, and recasting human presence as a key component in the river’s social ecologies. In the project, we have engaged in contemporary discourses around wasteland recovery, the terrain vague, and the third landscape to reimagine the river shorelands as spaces of opportunity for the coexistence of non-human and human species.