Warm Earth Lab

The Thamesmead Marshlands exists in a state of Third Nature – its previous use as a munitions factory, then as bomb-site landfill, have resisted redevelopment and allowed nature to reclaim the land as a site for Human-Nonhuman coproduction.

In this unlikely scenario, the contaminated soils that seep metals into the Thames and threaten the marshland ecosystem are the very thing that defend its right to exist.

The Warm Earth Lab proposes a shared program of biological and aesthetic remediations to heal the contaminated earth through non-extractive methods, whilst establishing social value across the landscape.