This project focuses on the landscapes surrounding the city of Leipzig, Germany. This former mining region has been undergoing rapid change since the late 90s. The open-pit coal mining activities had left desolates strips of land that are little by little being transformed into parks and lakes. The mining landscape the GDR left behind, symbol of hard labor and a vision of socialism, has progressively and almost inconspicuously despite the scale of the endeavor turned into a postcard praising leisure society and consumerist capitalism. Those spaces are now the grounds of new activities, all indirectly bearing the marks of this terrotiory's history. This is how, in those lakes, scuba-diving can become an archaelogical activity and unveils the strata of this repressed past. And it is certainly not a coincidence that geocaching — the burying and discovering of waterproof boxes containing trinkets using GPS — is a popular activity in the Lake District. So many hobbies that can be seen as a way to reclaim this territory, with new ways to explore and chart it off the beaten track.