Constructing post-petroleum imaginaries and developing typologies that question the existing political and cultural norms of our oil-reliant society.

This studio aims to expand architecture as a support structure. It seeks to explore potentials for architecture to release and facilitate action in troubled sites at the intersection of environmental, political, and social crises. We focus 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. Focusing on the city of Aberdeen, as we are researching and building material with which to work, we ask: what might a post petroleum future be like and what might we need to do to nurture its timely arrival?