Greg Grabasch - Director
Greg Grabasch is a Landscape Architect / Design Facilitator and practices throughout urban and regional Australia. Greg completed his Landscape Architecture degree at RMIT as a mature age student with preceding time spent as a Sapper within the Australian Defence Force followed by managing a design construction business in North Queensland. Greg’s focus in the past 20 years has moved from bomb disposal to supporting community development initiatives within public and Aboriginal organisational realms.
Excited about: building a wombat sanctuary in the Snowy Mountains with his wife, Emily.
Inspired by: design for more-than-human flourishing.
Holly Farley - Director
Dr Holly Farley is a settler Australian, facilitator, design researcher, strategist, and educator. She specialises in inclusive, creative, and collaborative design approaches to engagement and research. Using design processes, Holly works with communities and organisations to centre cultural knowledge and lived and living experiences to facilitate collective understandings and co-create agreed outcomes. Her PhD developed a method to collaboratively explore sociocultural spatial use with community members in remote West Australian communities. She has worked on built environment, cultural, health, social, tourism, and research project throughout Australia and continues to teach and facilitate professional training. Holly is committed to sensitively co-creating just project outcomes and inclusive, anti-racist systems and environments.
Excited about: learning te reo Māori with her partner, Leighton.
Inspired by: the resilience of communities fighting for social justice.
Joe Bean - Director
Joe Bean is a co-founder of Brave and Curious, specialising in design facilitation for environmentally and culturally sensitive outcomes. Joe applies an architectural skillset – spatial analysis, appropriate design for place and precise graphical documentation – to support community driven projects. Joe’s design approach sits comfortably between the built and un-built environment and has been developed and explored through projects in urban and regional Australia, the Philippines and Zambia.
Excited about: learning from local experts - rock doctors, brickies, twitchers, climbers, storytellers, fishos and brewers.
Inspired by: small and mighty migratory shorebirds like the Grey Plover. They fly from lutruwita Tasmania to the Arctic and back and show us a thing or two about determination, fragility and connection.