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 Pier 70, where she led a multidisciplinary design team through the design and entitlement of a 35- acre mixed-use waterfront development in a historic industrial district in San Francisco, to the Downtown SF Public Realm Action Plan, where she is driving efforts to evolve downtown San Francisco through design, to a graphic 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.