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Title: The Etymological Tree: Transforming Language and Architecture into Living Organisms
Researcher: Colten Danks
Themes: Climate Change, Anthropocene, Language, Transformation, Growth
Format: Installation
Architecture, artifacts, and language are living organisms changing and adapting the same way as human beings. Architecture is a being, placed all over the world as part of a larger connected ecosystem; it’s an artifact from the past living in the future.
For buildings go through a transformation–when they’re built, they create a space, slowly decaying over time transforming into a void. Architecture never pauses, it is continuous, growing, expanding, evolving, and decaying every day. If we design under the belief that “objects” are living organisms, can we embrace the architecture of decay?