Plush Ruins is a participatory sculptural installation that ironically engages the feelings of distance and comfort in relation to elsewhere catastrophes mediated by the news. It invites audiences to bring to bear on the simple acts of construction and destruction, the anxieties instilled by the rhetoric of crisis and catastrophe that abounds in media and political discourse, from climate change, terrorism, migration to financial crises. This work comprised off-cuts of polypropylene foam, the material ordinarily used in mattresses and couches, also participants were provided with white painting suits resembling hazards response suits. The installation was pre-configured into a suggested site of ruin, and then activated by the audience-participants on the opening night and throughout the exhibition period, deforming and reforming into new structures.