Jeff Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture and director of the Urban Commons Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on public space, democracy, community design, design activism, and civic engagement. In a career that spans the Pacific, Hou has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers, fishers, and villagers in Asia and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in North American cities, on projects ranging from conservation of wildlife habitats to bottom-up placemaking. Hou is the author and editor of numerous publications including Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities and City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy, co-edited with Sabine Knierbein.