Queer Geology X

Queer Pedagogy 

RMIT 

Landscape Design  2022

Tutors:  Luca Lana

​

​

​

The studio introduced situated ecologies and embedded practices as an alternative framework for working within post-extraction landscapes. Based at the former Beech Forest Quarry and hosted by These Are The Projects, students engaged a rural site shaped by geologic, hydrologic and biologic systems through a multi-day immersion of talks, workshops and hands-on activity.

Framed by discourse on critical ecologies and phenomenological research, participants undertook direct observation, maintenance involvement and 1:1 material experimentation. Rather than idealising the “natural,” the studio fostered situated, participatory responses that acknowledged ongoing interference and ecological negotiation. Field-based interventions informed resolved mid-scale propositions grounded in tectonic precision and lived site experience.