Robin Abad Ocubillo is a dedicated public servant with a passion for civic innovation in public space design, planning, evaluation, and policy. He is currently Director of Shared Spaces San Francisco, helping communities leverage the public realm for economic recovery, civic and psychological wellbeing. He has extensively developed research methods and metrics for human-use evaluation of public spaces, manages the City’s Public Space - Public Life Program, and is co-author of the Global Public Life Data Protocol. Before joining the SF Planning Department, Robin served for several years as a Project Manager in the Golden Gate National Parks, working on cultural landscape and visitor access projects at sites throughout Bay Area parklands. Robin is also producer and curator with the San Francisco Urban Film Festival, bringing communities together around civics and storytelling. He recently edited an edition of Open Space Magazine at SFMOMA titled ‘Participatory Urbanism,’ which interrogated the promise and problematics of public space; asking who participates — and how — in constructing urban places.

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