Sociocultural Transformation at the End of Fossil Fuels

This project is an inquiry into "Sociocultural Transformation at the End of Fossil Fuels". Its overarching objective of is to make explicit the relationship between techne – work on and with the materials of the world – and socio-cultural transformations as these emerge in the present, understood as a hinge time between a fossil-fuelled past and as of yet unformed future. Firstly, the project aims at investigating adaptive and proactive responses to the end of fossil-fuel dependency as these develop across scales and communities, including the human, non-human, geo-political, and corporate. Secondly, it builds a research team which investigates material and conceptual changes linked to the fossil-fuelled grounds of contemporary life – including economic and political life – as these are transformed into an emergent carbon-neutral energy system. Finally, the project will develop a corpus of photographs for contemporary and future generations, documenting slow-moving but likely radical changes to the built environment attendant to the end of oil dependency.