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The Master Dissertation develops a strategy of perceiving 10 heterotopic exclusions of cemeteries of 4 different cultures and 4 zoning typologies existent in the urban pattern of rapidly developing metropolis of Bangkok by identifying 3 different scales being environmental issues, urban conditions and participant experience. The identified aspects in combination with detected micro - cultures within the areas are used as drivers for urban laboratories in each of the sites aiming to mediate in between by twisting the places that previously shifted from anthropological to non-places of abandonment into a contribution to public space that is on high demand in the accelerated urban sprawl context. A set of 10 microcosms with specific focus to 4 selected sites that conclude the essential elements of them all unveil the historical sequence of Bangkok development from the aquatic cultural origins with traditional wooden houses on the poles, to concrete block shophouses and residences and finally to a process of skyscraperization. In the context of Bangkok shifting from agriculture-based to knowledge-based city the crucial element is to consider the indigenous knowledge of public space appropriation in order provide the sustainable spaces appreciated by local cultures. The urban laboratories of 10 cemeteries unveiling the urban processes as well as environmental issues happening in the sites of multi-cultures can become a catalysts for entanglement with another sites of migrant cultures in distant locations. The project aims to reconsider the existing spaces for multi-purpose use to reach the efficiency of them by reinforcing the existing micro-cultures and mediating in between in the quickly metabolising city of Bangkok.