With a practice around developing engaging community platforms, cultural researcher and designer Alice Grandoit joins us for Friday Five!

With a practice centered around developing engaging community platforms, cultural researcher and designer Alice Grandoit works at the intersections of community engagement, education and urbanism. Over the past 12 years, she’s worked with organizations to build awareness through strategic community partnerships, then reinforced these relationships through the creation and execution of memorable, physical touchpoints that serve as sites of mutual inspiration and exchange. Alice is the co-founder of Room for Magic, a collaborative design studio that works to bridge brands and communities, and Deem Journal, a new bi-annual print publication focused on design as a social practice. Room for Magic is a collaborative design studio that works to bridge brands and communities to ensure the needs of all parties are prioritized, while conceptualizing and developing brand strategy, marketing and programming. It’s through this work that Deem Journal was created as a publication that uses dialogue as a tool to inspire and welcome diverse participants and contributors into the world of solution-based thinking. “Through my practice as researcher and designer I draw inspiration from people, their stories, creative creativity and places. I feel extremely fortunate to be able to integrate these inspirational topics, themes and pe...