An incomplete guide to hannah tran

Volume I · Revised August 2026

Printed nowhere. Compiled in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Edited during a season of applications, paperwork, and excessive rink travel. Contains environmental systems, JavaScript, clay dust, rural Pennsylvania, several invented territories, and approximately fifty ties.

A note on completeness

This guide does not contain everything I have made. It contains enough evidence to show how I work: I investigate complicated systems, find the human story inside them, and build a form through which someone else can understand what I found. Sometimes that form is a research platform. Sometimes it is an exhibition, an essay, a campaign, a ceramic object, or an imaginary country. The complete projects remain elsewhere. This book provides the routes.

Notice the system. Understand the audience. Build the translation.

The projects ahead move between research, environmental systems, editorial design and public interpretation.

Mediascape

How does political affiliation change the language through which news organizations describe the same climate event?

MediaScape is an interactive research platform for comparing how news outlets frame climate-change coverage. I developed the research framing, comparative information architecture and interface concept, letting readers move between computational patterns and the original language beneath them.

Milton: planted in place

How can a local museum make the environmental history of a place visible to the people already living inside it?

The first exhibition at the Milton Municipal Museum brought together archival maps, local history, botanical research and editorial design. I developed its visual system and narrative structure, moving from the history of a region to the typography on an individual label.

Community trail research

What happens when infrastructure that appears universally beneficial meets the particular fears, habits and histories of a community?

This research examined perceptions surrounding a proposed Buffalo Valley Rail Trail extension. I helped translate individual responses into larger patterns without erasing the local concerns inside the data.

The ahurea project

How might cultural education feel native to the visual and social language of young people online?

Founded in Vietnam in 2020, Ahurea combined editorial design, online events, publications, merchandise and participatory campaigns. As founder and creative lead, I built an operating editorial system capable of holding a growing community together.

A publication with its own geography

Hjernelandet is an essay atlas for observations that refuse to remain separate: infrastructure, food systems, language, environmental contradiction, movement and belonging. I developed its identity, map, taxonomy, dispatch registry, editorial templates and reading system.

Why would you do this to yourself?

Power skating, public apprenticeship and the cost of appearing unfinished in adulthood.

Complete essays open as ordinary vertical articles. The guide remains your place in the authored sequence.

10.1 · can transformers learn formal languages?

Using deterministic finite automata to distinguish structural understanding from probabilistic approximation beyond training distributions.

Clay meets ice

Hockey and pottery involve many of the same problems: pressure, timing, balance, material response and the moment when conscious instruction becomes physical instinct. The clay skate began as a joke and became one of the most technically demanding objects I had attempted. This is where I prefer to work: where unrelated systems begin explaining one another.

Computer science + environmental studies

Selected study: interface design, environmental policy, qualitative and quantitative research, language and computational systems.

What i can bring to a project

I am most useful when a project is technically or culturally complicated and needs to become understandable without becoming simplistic.

This guide omits several projects.

Also omitted: most unfinished thoughts, numerous ceramic failures and almost the entire tie collection. Corrections and additions will appear in the next revision.