Kristine Stiphany is a registered architect and urban planner whose research, practice, and teaching focus upon housing and urbanization in Latin America, and on the sociospatial evolution of informal settlements. Stiphany is the founder of the Chapa Urban Lab (www.chapa.io), a citizen-sourced data project in São Paulo, and her current research agenda advances digital tools to improve citizen participation and the urban design of cities around ideas of social justice (http://www.chapa.io/comuni#dados). Building upon these foundations, Stiphany’s urban studios in Brazil (2018), Ecuador (2019), and Houston (2020) merge computational and field methods to develop urban design scenarios for future geographies of informality in the 21st century city. These research and teaching activities inform Stiphany’s design practice, dedicated to community design and collective housing arrangements, most recently Brownie Park Development (City of Austin Parks and Recreation and the North Lamar Community Organization) and, together with offices SSAU and SIAA (São Paulo), Sobradinho, a community densification strategy that calibrates the Brazilian Minha Casa Minha Vida housing model to specific contexts (CODHAB).