Underworld: soils, research & risk at Pig’s Eye Regional Park

Pig’s Eye Regional Park is a paradox. It is St. Paul’s largest green space, surrounded by industry, a wildlife sanctuary, and heavily polluted. Chemicals from a former landfill at Pig’s Eye Regional Park are polluting the Mississippi River. Underworld envisions the future of Pig’s Eye Regional Park as a site where pollution remediation, research, and public art meet. This project asks how pollutants can be contained on the site, how the site could be remediated, and how visitors can be encouraged to grapple with Pig’s Eye Lake’s complex environmental problems and future.