This thesis investigates the implementation of a decentralised architecture and native grass ecosystem to rejuvenate the post-extractivist landscape of the Morwell Mine for walking, farming, brewing, baking, and camping. Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome conceptually frames the project’s ambitions to draw attention to the complex relationships of the site, its history, its human and non-human inhabitants. The project’s small ruptures of architecture within a rhizomatic grassland are dependent on their relationality, a ‘Poetics of Relation’, that looks to form an adaptive assemblage of programmes that open the land to visitors, increase habitat for endangered species, and allow communities to come together to participate in native grain agriculture.
