Rural Alchemy is an intervention project in the town of Docenario in Extremadura, Spain. The colonisation town was built in 1961 and counted with 36 houses and a church. The project transforms the landscape into holistic artificial natures, from hyper-productivity to third natures. It aims to challenge depopulation, an issue affecting the Spanish countryside, by retaining and attracting talent through providing jobs of diverse educational levels, while generating a new local economic model. It achieves this by inserting techno-social productive methods within the existing artificial landscape and proposing an amalgamation of synergistic programs for humans and non- humans.

The project was developed within the context of IE University School of Architecture and Design.