Eudaimonia consists of the transformation of the Harpur Hill Quarry and its infamous quarry lake into a productive, spiritual landscape, which guides visitors through the re-establishment of their ontological security.

The landscape provides a means of human disposition through the alkaline hydrolysis process – an alternative process to burial or cremation, that mimics natural decomposition. It liquifies the human body, turning it into a nutrient-rich solution that is injected into the quarry’s soil. Based on the lifestyle of the person disposed, the solution’s pH level will differ, and thus the injected liquid will have a varying effect on the soil’s properties. The landscape as a whole will become responsive to the lifestyle of the people injected into it, thus becoming a reimagination of the human afterlife.

The final destination of the mourner’s journey is the excavated garden, whose unconventional construction process results in a web of private and public spaces that encourage society to slowly move the notion of mortality away from private conversation and into the public realm. The garden’s construction process is based on a zero-waste principle that remains faithful to the site’s history as a quarry, but manages to turn a destructive process, into a creative one.