This studio aimed to expand architecture as a support structure. It sought to explore potentials for architecture to release and facilitate action in troubled sites at the intersection of environmental, political, and social crises. We focused on sites and situations that suffer from the impacts of extractive industries, particularly petroleum and oil, to examine how architecture might operate in these situations to enable alternative futures. Since the advent of oil and the dawn of Modernity, societies have had to grapple with the emergence of petrocultures. These cultures, driven by a desire for speed, consumerism, and individualism, have necessitated the development of various infrastructures. Oil has become an integral part of our modern existence, trapping us in a perpetual cycle created by the petroleum industry and its byproducts. In this studio, we imagined the impossible and designed our way out of this situation by working with petro-fictions and critical fictions. Focusing on the city of Aberdeen, as we researched and built material with which to work, we asked: what might a post petroleum future be like and what might we need to do to nurture its timely arrival?