Every day, a detonation loosens ore from the grounds of the Chilean Atacama desert. Copper, the material underlying any digital connection, is mined to construct ourcommunication infrastructures while the mining industry destructs and contaminates a whole territory. In a time of copper depletion, this project looks at three separate sites that have been widely affected by the extraction of copper and attempts to convert them into new “mines”, productive instead of destructive. By applying the method of transition design, current economic, ecologic and material dependencies are turned around, empowering the miner’s labouring body and giving agency to the house that gives shelter to it.

The project "From Mine to Mine" was developed by Lauritz Bohne, Lea Scherer and Edward Zammit at TU Delft.