Leticia Lozano is co-founder and director of MACIA Estudio, an applied research studio in Mexico City. She specializes in creating places, programs, and policy recommendations to provoke the construction of community in playful ways. As an architect, experience designer and play researcher, Leticia is passionate about public spaces and human behavior. Her hybrid profile has allowed her to collaborate with organizations and governments worldwide. Leticia is co-author of Architecture for Urban Play and Playing Together, books positioning play and childhood at the center of cities' transformation. She is a member of the World Urban Parks' Children, Play and Nature committee. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at various universities in Mexico and has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois at Chicago, UWE Bristol, among others. Leticia has been invited to share her work at several venues worldwide, including: SXSW, Uppsala Health Summit, Playable City, Salzburg Global Seminar and Child in the City. In 2017 Leticia was selected for Creative Producers International, a three year programme to advance playable cities' research. Between 2015-2018 she led the Playful City strategy at Mexico City's innovation lab, her aim as a civil servant was to establish childhood at center stage of urban planning and policy design.