Twice a year, the Graham Foundation issues a series of significant grants, first to individuals and then to organizations. The Foundation has just released the list of recipients of the 2017 Grants to Individuals, totaling over $560,000 divided amongst 72 projects.

"Many of our grantees this year are exploring the agency of design," states Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda. "They are testing the limits of conventional practice to make new work that directly engages the social and political dimensions of the designed environment."

Here’s the full list of grantees:

Exhibitions

Marcelo Araya, Andrés Garcés, Iván Ivelic & Manuel Sanfuentes
Daniel Cardoso Llach
Assaf Evron
Nathan Friedman
Anna Halprin
Suzanne Harris-Brandts & Angela Wheeler
Rick Lowe
Zahra Malkani & Shahana Rajani
Senam Awo Okudzeto
Maxi Spina
Martine Syms

Film/Video/New Media Projects

Josef Asteinza & Mariano Ros
TOMA: Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner, Eduardo Pérez, Ignacio Rivas & Ignacio Saavedra
Aggie Ebrahimi, Oscar Molina, Brenda Isabel Steinecke Soto, Catalina Ortiz & Sandra Tabares-Duque
Daniel Eisenberg
Sean Lally
Liam Young

Public Program

Seán Curran & David Skidmore, with Diana Balmori

Publications

Kunlé Adeyemi & Suzanne Lettieri Esra Akcan
Barry Bergdoll & Jonathan Massey
Caitlin Berrigan
Michael Carriere & David Schalliol
Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II & Mabel O. Wilson
Alison J. Clarke
Francesc o Dal Co
Roberto Damiani
Martha Deese
Teresa Fankhänel
Leonardo Finotti
Reto Geiser
Design Earth: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy
Cristina Goberna & Urtzi Grau
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Maria Gough
Helen Gyger
Aimi Hamraie
Rory Hyde
Office for Political Innovation: Andrés Jaque
Omar Kholeif
Tiffany Lambert
Paolo Nicoloso
Conor O’Shea
Itohan I. Osayimwese
Kyong Park
Angelo Plessas
Mil M2: Fernando Portal
Anders Herwald Ruhwald
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Elisa Silva
Christopher Sims
Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin
Molly Wright Steenson
Paulo Tavares
Allyson Vieira

Research

Michelle Moore Apotsos
Tulay Atak
Lee Azus
Andrea Bagnato
Eva Díaz
WAI Think Tank: Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia
Miyuki Aoki Girardelli
Virginia Hanusik
Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl
Branden W. Joseph, Felicity D. Scott & Mark Wasiuta
Jeffrey Mansfield
Rebecca O’Neal Dagg
Jason Oddy
MK Smaby & Carolyn Wheeler
Irene V. Small
Despina Stratigakos
Chat Travieso

Find out more about each project here.

Archinect has interviewed many of the recipients of the 2017 Grants to Individuals both for our podcast and elsewhere. Take a listen to find out more about their work:

And take a gander at these features:

Contingencies, Complicities and Contradictions: Andrés Jaque Exposes the Processes Behind Architecture

Putting the Planet to Paper: The Monumental Geographies of DESIGN EARTH