Laura Crescimano is a co-founder and leader of SITELAB urban studio. Laura’s work investigates the social and political power of space. Designing both processes and places, Laura’s projects range from Downtown West, where she led a multidisciplinary design team for the mixed use expansion of Downtown San Jose and new campus for Google, to the recent Public Realm Action Plan for Downtown San Francisco, to a toolkit for the homeless services non-profit Lava Mae to open-source their mobile showers and approach to service.

Laura has written and lectured on placemaking, urban design and the arts, temporary urbanism, design entrepreneurism, the urban evolution of the workplace, and taught Design and Activism at UC Berkeley. Laura serves on the San Francisco Waterfront Design Advisory Committee.