Grant is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary designer and strategist exploring how design, movement and lived experience shape more adaptive and connected ways of inhabiting the world. Trained in landscape architecture and with over 16 years of experience spanning landscape design, urban research, strategic communications and executive support, he brings a uniquely human lens to design – connecting logistics, storytelling and placemaking across scales. Blending the precision of an assistant to c-level suite philanthropists with the curiosity of a global traveler, Grant’s practice uncovers how everyday systems shape human experience—and how intentional design can make those systems more responsive, connected, and alive. He welcomes collaborations that bridge disciplines and imagine new ways of inhabiting the world.
Design, movement, and operations across geographies.
THE GLOBALIST
2022-Present
BERLIN, GERMANY
Operations + Systems
COVID IN CALIFORNIA
2021-22
USA
Urban Practice
THE URBANIST
2018-2020
BERLIN, GERMANY
Exploration → Direction
A GLOBAL METROPOLIS CITIZEN
CHICAGO, IL, USA
GRADUATE SCHOOL
URBANA/CHAMPAIGN, IL, USA
Foundations + Early Formation
GROWING UP
DULUTH, MN, USA
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN, USA
GAP YEAR
WYOMING, USA + ALASKA, USA