Decarbon-Fuzzification is a speculative design interruption that curates the decommissioning of oil refineries as a popular phenomenon. Fuzzification makes legible the transmutation of these deeply scarred sites soft-to-the-touch. These troubled, reckless, and harmful geographies finally receive ameliorative care that is simultaneously local support and global spectacle. All 129 United States refineries are physically draped with a massive, fuzzy, pink polyester-fleece blanket as they are decommissioned and repurposed. Hereby monumentally and dynamically choreographing both a landscape and cultural transition.
Fuzzification takes immediate action in addressing some of the world’s most problematic and complex sites. Refineries are the nexus of the oil system; the system at its most legible, (quasi)public, and immediately harmful. These sites embody vehemently toxic traits and outputs that correspond with a culture dominated by toxic masculine tendencies towards domination, control, greed and destruction. The interruption brings attention to the fraught nature of these banal and tragically sublime geographies and establishes a hub for citizens to grapple with these sites and the toxic culture that enabled them: past, present, and future. Fuzzification is an act of geographic introspection. A therapeutic work that highlights repair, physically and culturally, of the scars inflicted by years of extraction. These massive, air-lifted, union-made blankets embody femininity and apply fuzzy pressure to broader culture by visibly caring for, softening, and nurturing these decaying sites. Collective investment in the future of society is fostered by the catalytic spectacle of Fuzzification.
COLLABORATORS
+ADAM SCOTT
+PUBLISHED IN LA+ MAGAZINE ISSUE #17
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