Terraforming has been interpreted as a process that emulates Earth environments outside our planet, i.e the discussions about terraforming Mars. But little attention has been paid to that same process been performed right here on Earth to make certain places, which are often misunderstood as barren, resemble more soft and leisurely landscapes elsewhere. These terraforming activities have only in the last decades been performed at an unprecedented scale, which opens questions regarding the new social ecologies performed by the keepers of these new cities and the ecosystems they care for.
This research project sets to advance the discussion beyond the critiques of the Anthropocene and resource extraction capitalism and challenge the architectural discourse of sustainability surrounding the environmental crisis and climate change by documenting the emergence of new spatial and social relationship between men and their non-human masters in environments fabricated by financial speculation.