Learning From Life Cycles – Dan Tran
Increasingly, transdisciplinary artists like Dan Tran are re-assessing their roles in the relationships between buildings, built environments, and the non-built ecosystems that provide the raw materials and energy that sustain them. Individually adopting greener studio practices and making material transitions are common responses to the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, pollution and many other interwoven social and environmental injustices. Yet, artists are also innately poised to cultivate unorthodox research relationships that weave disciplines, data, experiences and cultures in projects which then weave broader audiences and deeper mutual understanding. In doing so, they fill the ever-increasing need for the diverse, complex collaborations required to confront the complexities of the climate crisis as well as the ever-increasing need for more effective science communication.
