Christine's research and practice lies at the intersection of civic strategy and design, community mobilization and urban informatics. She directs the City Innovation Group and works with government, researchers and fellow-minded entrepreneurs, to create livable and sustainable cities through facilitating human-to-human, and human-computer interactions.
As a Research Associate at MIT's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) SENSEable City Lab, between 2008 and 2011, Christine led the project 'The Copenhagen Wheel' - a wheel that turns ordinary bikes into electric hybrids with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities and which pushes the boundaries of the 'internet of things'. This work debuted at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference and has gone on to win numerous design awards.
Christine's work has been featured in exhibitions and in academic and popular press, including: the COP15 Climate Conference, Ecological Urbanism at Harvard’s GSD,Senseable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures, in San Francisco, and in The New York Times, Scientific American and the Australian Financial Review. She speaks regularly about cities and innovation including at: South by South West, Screen Media Expo, The Summer of Smart, and the Future of Urbanism. In 2011, she was named one of the top 100 Internet of Things thinkers.
Prior to Christine's role at SENSEable City Lab and City Innovation Group, she received her SMArchS Architecture and Urbanism degree at MIT and her Architecture degree in Sydney, Australia. She is a joint patent holder on the Copenhagen Wheel, and in Australia, practiced in both architectural and urban design offices.
As a Research Associate at MIT's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) SENSEable City Lab, between 2008 and 2011, Christine led the project 'The Copenhagen Wheel' - a wheel that turns ordinary bikes into electric hybrids with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities and which pushes the boundaries of the 'internet of things'. This work debuted at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference and has gone on to win numerous design awards.
Christine's work has been featured in exhibitions and in academic and popular press, including: the COP15 Climate Conference, Ecological Urbanism at Harvard’s GSD,Senseable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures, in San Francisco, and in The New York Times, Scientific American and the Australian Financial Review. She speaks regularly about cities and innovation including at: South by South West, Screen Media Expo, The Summer of Smart, and the Future of Urbanism. In 2011, she was named one of the top 100 Internet of Things thinkers.
Prior to Christine's role at SENSEable City Lab and City Innovation Group, she received her SMArchS Architecture and Urbanism degree at MIT and her Architecture degree in Sydney, Australia. She is a joint patent holder on the Copenhagen Wheel, and in Australia, practiced in both architectural and urban design offices.
