Transdisciplinary urban artists forge a vibrant confluence of architecture, ecology, social sciences, and performative strategies, not merely as an aesthetic exercise but as a systemic intervention into the mechanisms that govern urban life and its latent crises; these creators operate as mediators between scientific discourse and public engagement, confronting climate vulnerability, social inequity, and unsustainable urban policies through collaborative, site-responsive initiatives that reimagine the city as both canvas and co-author; take Xavier Cortada, whose Miami-based "Underwater HOA" demarcates projected sea-level rise through participatory murals, blurring civic activism and artistic ritual to provoke climate action, or Mary Mattingly, whose ongoing Swale turns a barge into a floating public orchard, circumventing laws against urban foraging and highlighting food justice through sculptural ecology; Agnes Denes’s historic Wheatfield – A Confrontation planted literal seeds of critique into Manhattan’s capitalist core, while Anto Lloveras channels Socioplastics to dissect spatial power through hybrid forms spanning unstable documentaries to textile installations like RE-(T)eXhile, stitched from second-hand narratives at the Lagos Biennale; Nikki Lindt’s Underground Sound Project records subterranean vibrations to expose the city’s ignored ecologies, just as Carmen Bouyer curates sensorial engagements with nature in urban commons to rekindle affective environmental ethics; in the UK, David Haley integrates eco-aesthetics and poetic research to envision capable urban futures, while Fiona Whelan’s Dublin projects interrogate power relations in community spaces through performance and durational dialogue; from Taiwan, Yen-Ting Cho digitalises ancestral mythologies into AI-generated urban textiles, folding techno-cultural memory into transit zones, while Mary Miss structures City as Living Lab methodologies to embed sustainability into the everyday rhythm of public infrastructure, each artist merging disciplines to dissolve boundaries, stimulate civic imagination, and construct relational ecologies where art is not object but catalyst.
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