Salt Lake City, UT
Kiernan Grissom is a designer currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a graduate of the Multi-Disciplinary Design program in the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. His work includes a variety of spatial studies and installations that engage with anthropological phenomena and land use.
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Lessee’s Table
Who Steals the Goose
Making Clear
GroenAls_Een Landelijke_DroomA Game of Chess
The Uinta Basin contains thousands of oil and gas wells, producing 80% of crude in the state. A large portion of this production takes place on public land, where oil and gas companies lease parcels from the Bureau of Land Management to be flattened and produced upon. These areas create a complex network of roads, pads, and movement which cut through public landscapes. Lessee’s Table proposes a new method of interpreting and experiencing the organisms created when private industry exploits public space.
A narrative based project exploring the means by which commoning practices occur, and the actions and tactics used to [re]gain these spaces. Through studying commoning movements through history [most notably the Charter of the Forest, the Solidarity Movement, Mai 68, Zapatista Movement, and the Hong Kong Protests], common narratives were investigated, where recurring situations between actors [commoners and oppressing powers] could be identified. A narrative was produced from surveyed said common[ing] situations to enact a speculative publication in which situational tactics could be examined in a derived world. Physical artifacts from the narrative were produced as a means of both telling the story of commoning, as well as a means of further research into the subject. These artifacts work in tandem with the publication to fully explore commoning as a practice. All artifacts were produced using only materials found around the studio space as means of being true to the nature of commoning and commons practices.
Created between April 18th, 2023 and April 25th, 2023, Making Clear documents the process in which artefacts are made.
A study of the natural system of the Brussels Sprout through drawing and fabrication. An artificial study into a human engineered system, inevitably ending in an artificial landscape, engineered by a human.
A project dedicated to the memories of friends abroad, each piece [form and material] created from architectural staples of these places. A heavy set to remain stationary, holding the weight of memory, a product which becomes a site.