About Grace
I’m Grace Knight, a creative and designer with a love for biology.
Long story short: I thought I wanted to become a Scientist. I realized I didn’t want to test for a problem ie/pollution— I knew it was there. I was fixated on the solution, the design opportunity. To this day I am still driven by the question:
“…So what are we going to DO about it?”
This is where my passion lies—design for the environment.
I believe:
If you design for nature, you’re designing for all.
In success through cooperation, not competition.
If you observe and speculate, you’re a scientist.
In being a forever student and teaching yourself.
Nature has all the answers, we just have to look hard and listen.
Everyone has the power and the responsibility to invoke positive change.
9-5: Creative Designer at Ecovative
5-9: Artist / Biophiliac
CV
Stage Design for Smithsonian Futures 2022
Judge for Syracuse BioDesign Sprint 2021
Moderator for BioDesign Alumni Panel
Ourosteak Nominated for Beazley Designs of the Year 2020
Conversation Creatives in Biotech No. 4 with Biofabricate
Speaker at BIOFAB Revolutionaries
Exhibited in Designs for Different Futures
Q&A with Biodesign Challenge
Interview with Chonogram Magazine
Judge for Biodesign Challenge 2019
Webinar Host for Biodesign Challenge
Interview in Range Magazine
Mycelium Workshop Host at The Sanctuary for Independent Media
Stage design for Synbiobeta 2018
Speaker at Better World x Design 2018
Installation in BioDesign at Woods Gerry
Awarded the Rachel Carson Award
RISD BFA in Industrial Design and Nature Culture, Sustainability Studies 2018
President of IDSA @ RISD
Co-Founder of the Biomimicry Club @ RISD
Awarded Yousef Karsh Student of Design Science Award 2016