TEN x TEN
Kyle Franta is an experienced designer currently working at TEN x TEN since January 2021. Franta has held multiple roles at the University of Minnesota, including Great Lakes Design Lab Research Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Metropolitan Landscape Ecology and Cities on Water, and Vice President of Student Objectives in Landscape (SOIL), while also serving as a Resilient Communities Project Fellow. Previous experience includes positions at Phillips Garden as a Design Assistant and various roles at South Dakota State University, including Undergraduate Research Assistant for Rural Design and Landscape Architecture Accreditation Assistant. Franta started in the landscaping field with internships at United Farmers Cooperative, Kerry's Landscaping and Irrigation, and Sunset View Landscaping. Academically, Franta holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, with concentrations in Ecological Restoration, Horticulture, and Geographic Information Sciences.
TEN x TEN
Founded in 2015, TEN x TEN is a transdisciplinary landscape architecture and urban design practice grounded by a shared curiosity and passion for experimentation, storytelling, and agency. We collaborate with visionary clients and teams to co-create immersive, resilient landscapes that adapt to social, economic, and environmental transformation. Capitalizing on creative alliances between fields, we operate comfortably within a shifting set of disciplinary boundaries. We listen, communicate, and trust, cultivating a design process full of community and laughter. Our work pays careful attention to craft, beauty, and temporality inherent in any landscape. Merging art and science, our process challenges norms of the landscape architecture profession. We ask: What do we see? How can we document, investigate and experiment to build relationships and deepen our ways of knowing? How can we apply various modes of seeing and making to discover the magic latent in a site? Our studies document change: mold, decay, growth, competition, failure, and resilience. We explore spaces, stories, materials, and ecologies at all scales, and elevate the everyday human experience through a deep respect for the authenticity of people, culture, and ecology.