(Un)Gardening: The Mine and The Allotment Part 2 Dissertation 2024 Anna-Lena Mueller Aarhus School of Architecture | Denmark Following and intertwining two cultural practices of Eastern Germany, namely lignite mining and allotment gardens, this thesis positions itself on the intersection of architecture, landscape and ecology with the aim of bringing intimacy and nurturing to a place previously thought to exist outside of those notions of care.The methodology of (un)gardening invites us to celebrate time and change. Approaching architecture and infrastructural systems from a viewpoint grounded in landscape practices, opens up new opportunities when designing for futures that have to adapt to a rapidly changing world and climate. By bringing in ecological principles previously reserved for landscapes as well as jumping in scales from the micro to the territorial, I aim to show how everything we construct has a consequence within the larger metabolic system of landscapes.Design has the potential to create tangible links between previously disconnected parts of a system, connecting the vast with the intimate, machine and landscape, the global and the situated, humans and non-humans, and mining and gardening. As such, I advocate for architecture that is situated, multi-scalar, adaptable and plural, operating always in relation to different environments, ecologies and social relations. I advocate for architecture as landscape. Tutor(s) Alicia Lazzaroni