Matt Grosser

Matt is a designer and researcher hailing from the Great South Bay of Long Island, New York.  He is an interdisciplinary PhD student, and University of Washington MLA Graduate, whose practice has ranged from helping to oversee the design and implementation of New York City’s green infrastructure program to shoreline design and permitting throughout the Pacific Northwest.
 
Matt’s research focuses on how ecosystem-based infrastructural adaptation strategies can serve as a mechanism for stemming the impacts of climate change, with a specific interest in the role that critical ecologies and keystone species can play in resilience/adaptation design and planning. His work investigates how traditional and emerging ecologically-based infrastructural techniques could be improved and more broadly applied, as well as how the resultant socio-ecological bonds formed by the implementation of these strategies may elevate the role of ecological systems thinking for design and planning practices within the built environment.
 
When not pondering relationality within the web of life Matt can be found paddling around the waters of Seattle with his shiba inu Hideki.