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Christine Outram
Founder/Director, City Innovation Group Christine is a design-driven, award winning, technology geek who is fascinated by cities, big data and developing human-centered physical products and digital services that connect people and place. Christine received her SMArchS degree at MIT and her Architecture degree in Sydney, Australia. She is currently the Creative Director, Products & Platform, Deutsch LA. |
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Adam Pruden
Adam’s greatest passion is floating media. From fireworks to flying LEDs, he is exploring the vast possibilities of airborne communication. Adam uses his passion of data visualization, media theory and graphical storytelling by supporting projects that explore spatial and pervasive media and sensor technologies. Adam graduated from Ball State University in Indiana with a B.A. in Architecture he then received his M.S. in Visual Communications and Digital Design at Pratt Institute. |
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Claire Abrahamse
Claire is passionate about creating better spaces for contemporary urban living while acknowledging the retention of old building fabric and urban patterns as an essential “ingredient” in creating human-scaled, layered, multivalent and vibrant urban places in developing cities today. She has an architecture, urban design and heritage practice in Cape Town South Africa, received her architectural degree from the University of Cape Town, and completed the SMArchS Urbanism degree at MIT. |
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Kyla Fullenwider
Kyla Fullenwider creates projects that engage communities, both place-based and online. She has directed and curated public art projects with the City of New York, pop-up community centers with GOOD, and street food adventures with UCLA's Department of Urban Planning. A recent project, City R+D, brought together over 200 urban thinkers from across the country to re-imagine and plot the future of their cities. Kyla directs the Public Studio, writes the Walking Distance column for GOOD, and serves on the board of CicLAvia. She is a graduate of Harvard University and hails from the fine state of Kentucky. |
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Luca Simeone
Luca teaches design anthropology and interaction design at La Sapienza University and Ateneo Impresa Graduate Business School in Rome. He has published books, reviews and articles on design anthropology and ethnographic methods applied to design practices and architecture. In 2009 he founded FakePress, a think tank exploring the future of publishing. He is also the founder and user experience director of Vianet, an interaction design agency based in Rome, Toronto and Doha and works as independent expert for the European Commission and for the German Aerospace Center. |
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Francisca Rojas
Francisca is an urban planner and researcher whose main interest is understanding the way that new information and communications technologies (ICTs) coalesce with the way our cities function. She has degree in social science from the University of Michigan, a masters in city planning from MIT, and a PhD in urban and regional planning, also from MIT. |
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Jase Wilson
Jase has a masters of City Design and Development from MIT and is the owner and is the founder and CEO of Neighbor.ly, the civic crowdfunding site. |
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Xiaoji Chen
Xiaoji's research interest is the impact of emerging technologies and distributed computing on city forms and human behavior. Her recent projects focus on (1)the role of data visualization in understanding massive urban data in transportation, communication, environment and health; (2)the impact of data visualization on mental models and public behavioral pattern. Some of her projects at Senseable City Lab include: the data visualizations for the Copenhagen Wheel project, redrawing UK borderlines from human networks and Live Singapore. |
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Daniele Quercia
Daniele is passionate about mining data to answer multidisciplinary research questions. From urban informatics to personality studies, he is exploring the complex relationship between our offline and online worlds. His research lies at the intersection of data mining, social computing, urban informatics, and computational social science. He writes about mobile 2.0 research and industry on the group's blog. He also speaks at top-tier conferences (such as ICDM, Ubicomp, CSCW, WSDM) about how our digital footprints will help us address big societal issues. |
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Andres Sevtsuk
Andres is a Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Studies & Planning at MIT. He studied at L'École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires (BArch) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SMArchS, Ph.D) and has worked as an architect, urban designer, consultant and researcher in Estonia, France and the United States. While at MIT, he has led projects like Real Time Rome, Digital Water Walls, Graz Mobile Landscapes, and iSpots at the SENSEable City Lab, and been a long term member of the Smart Cities Group at the MIT Media Lab. His current research investigates the influence of both city form and technology on the social, economic and environmental performance of cities using state of the art spatial analysis tools. |
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Max Kanter
Max studied geography and geographic information systems. Max has a passion for fresh, affordable, healthy food, and encompasses a can-do energy that supports his role at the non profit Food Forward. While in Vermont, he founded and organized the town of Middlebury’s first community garden, bringing together property owners, local organizations, student volunteers, and master gardeners to cultivate a sustainable community garden. |