Meet the Team
Greg Grabasch - Director
Based in Tarndanya / Adelaide, Greg Grabasch is an award-winning Landscape Architect and Design Facilitator with extensive experience across urban and regional Australia. Through his work as a co-founder of Brave and Curious, and in his previous role as a founding director of UDLA in Walyalup / Fremantle, WA, Greg has patiently developed an approach to working collaboratively that is recognised for its humility and contribution to meaningful community development initiatives within public and Aboriginal organisational realms.
Greg has lived many lives, including time spent as a Sapper within the Australian Defence Force, leading into touring as a musician, followed by managing a design construction business in North Queensland. He was also briefly a body builder whilst completing his Landscape Architecture degree as a ‘mature’ aged student at RMIT, which Joe finds hard to believe.
Excited about: working with the Earth Funerals Project - linking individual death with environmental restoration - find out more at: https://earthfunerals.org/
Inspired by: the concept of collective consciousness, as described in philosophy, and embedded in indigenous worldviews. This worldview suggests consciousness exists as a linking entity for all things, beyond individual consciousness - this decentres humans and inspires yarns with our collaborators about shared futures.
Joe Bean - Director
Based in Nipaluna / Hobart, Joe Bean is a co-founder of Brave and Curious, with a wide range of experience happily developed and explored through projects in urban and regional Australia, the Philippines and Zambia. Joe studied Architecture in Western Australia and he now applies this architectural skillset to engage with landscape and ecology and to support community driven projects.
Joe’s design approach involves diving into the places we are working head first - reading up on local history, working out what scats we are seeing, seeking out the best running trails and learning from local experts - elders, rock doctors, brickies, climbers, storytellers, fishos, brewers and kids.
Excited about: working on the campaign for a Dark Sky Sanctuary for Southwest Sky Country with The Wilderness Society Tasmania. Advocating for dark sky protection means advocating for circadian rhythms as old as life itself, and an additional layer of responsible custodianship of wild ecosystems and cultural heritage. Find out more at: https://www.wilderness.org.au/southwest-sky-country
Inspired by: small and mighty migratory shorebirds like the Bar-tailed Godwit. They fly from Lutruwita / Tasmania to the Arctic and back and show us a thing or two about determination, fragility and connection.