This paper proposes that Boris Groys' claim that contemporary life is mediated via an ongoing loop of speculative, unfinished 'projects' can be used to explore the production of particular kinds of interfaciality and ‘Edgelands’, as defined by Marion Shoard in 2002. In it, I examine two sites in Scotland and the United States that have both witnessed re-development projects initiated and abandoned over the last three decades, where construction materials, half-finished roads, derelict gates and re-zoned 'development' areas are constantly re-valued and re-inhabited by humans and non-humans. Using images and fieldnotes collected for over a decade, as well as drawing on press reports I demonstrate how Shoard's and Groys’ concepts, most often applied in art, cultural geography and planning contexts, can be useful tools for contemporary archaeologists in examining the production and ongoing lives of ‘waste’ landscapes.