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Lina Bondarenko is a San Francisco-based architectural designer with Red Dot Studio and artist in residence teacher at School of the Arts Highschool. She is also director of Steep Urbanism-- a global inquiry into the spaces that result when human geography, topography, and infrastructure collide. Previously, Lina worked as an urban planner in San Francisco with Ideo and Gehl Architects and as an architectural designer in New York and Copenhagen with Bjarke Ingels Group and REX on commercial, cultural, institutional, and residential buildings.  She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and was selected for a research residency with the Postgraduate Programme “The New Normal” at Strelka Institute in Moscow, Russia, where she co-founded the augmented urban reality platform, Patternist.