Petra Kempf, PhD. is an architect, urban designer, and educator teaching architecture and urban design at Washington University in St. Louis. She has worked at institutions within the public and private sectors, including the NYC Department of City Planning, the Project for Public Spaces, and Richard Meier & Partners. Her creative practice speculates on regenerative ways of living, based on reflective, responsive, and reciprocal relationships, to confront the pressing challenges to the environment as well as the changing life parameters of urban citizens today. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, institutions and museums in the United States and Europe and has been featured in multiple publications.