GROWING UP DULUTH, MN, USA
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN, USA
GAP YEAR WYOMING, USA + ALASKA, USA
A GLOBAL METROPOLIS CITIZEN CHICAGO, IL, USA
GRADUATE SCHOOL URBANA/CHAMPAIGN, IL, USA
THE URBANIST BERLIN, GERMANY
Urbanist. Researcher + Designer.
Grant Penfield Haugen.
Grant is an Urbanist with over 14 years experience rethinking the urban realm across multiple scales. He has expertise in landscape architecture, marketing, urban planning and full-cycle content strategy, giving him a sophisticated understanding of the various components of urban life, design, media production and communications needed to take an idea from conception to fruition.
In creating spaces that celebrate local identity by engaging with regional ecosystems and reinvigorating the built environment to using airports as urban laboratories, his projects explore how mobility and logistics can encourage new urban form, cultural space, social life and ecological function in future settlement patterns.
Grant’s energized by the intersection of design, strategy and technology and how these come together to create preferred futures. Whether on his bike exploring Berlin or planning another global adventure, he’s a constant wanderer and enjoys working with people across various cultures and countries.