Émilie F. Grenier, narrative experience designer, will use the $10,000 grant award to create a collection of urban narrative objects that will effect a dialogue between two UNESCO Creative Cities, Montréal and Reykjavik, Iceland. She will meet with emerging creators who are part of Iceland’s effervescent design and literature communities, and study ways in which local materials can be used to tell stories—those of local authors but also those of their city. She will also investigate the canon of contemporary Nordic texts and the material specificity of the Icelandic urban environment. This process will lead to a collection of samples into a materials library, to be shown at the DesignMarch festival in Reykjavik in March 2015.