Christine L Outram

Los Angeles, CA

Internet

Deutsch - http://inventioni.st/ since Mar 2013
Senior Inventionist
City Innovation Group - Los Angeles since Jul 2010
Founder
Re:Imagine Group - California, USA Jun 2011 - Mar 2013
Creative Director
MIT - Cambridge, Massachusetts Jan 2008 - Jun 2011
Research Associate Senseable City Lab
Delfin Lend Lease Aug 2005 - Jul 2007
Architect/Urban Designer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007 - 2009
SMArchS University of New South Wales 1999 - 2004
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)

Design Thinking
Experience Design
Leadership
Project Management
User Centered Design
Management
Urbanism
Public Speaking
User Experience
User Interface Design
Interaction Design
Human Computer Interaction
Strategic Planning
User Experience Design
Design Strategy
Innovation
Creative Direction
Digital Strategy
Research
Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Advertising
Social Media
Smart Cities
Ux Design
Rapid Prototyping
Service Design
3D Visualization
Adobe Creative Suite
Sustainability
Start Ups
Big Data Thought Leadership
Ethnography
Social Media Marketing
Brand Development
Business Strategy
Civic Innovation
Digital Marketing
Digital Media

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
+ Led the creation of The Copenhagen Wheel - an award winning electric bike that was featured on the TV show Weeds and was unveiled at the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen. + Ongoing Strategy and Communications Adviser to the United Nations Global Pulse research initiative. + One of eight MIT researchers invited to Chile to help ignite a culture of innovation amongst young designers and business school students. + Adviser to the civic crowdfunding start-up Neighbor.ly + Creative Director for UP Singapore - Singapore's first 'urban prototyping' festival where over 200 entrepreneurs, designers and coders prototyped solutions and built businesses that addressed Singapore's key urban challenges. + Regular blogger on UBM's Future Cities site. + Named one of the top 100 Internet of Things thinkers by postcapes in 2011. + Led the project 'Real Time Copenhagen' - a one night digital and physical experience that displayed real time data from the company TDC and combined it with GPS traces from volunteers to show how people were moving through the city, which areas were congested and where events were taking place.
AWARDS
+ Top 100 'Internet of Things thinkers', awarded by Postscapes, 2011 + Finalist, Index Design Award, 2011 + Finalist, Edison Award, 2011 + Winner, Brand New Award, Bike Expo, Munich, 2010 + James Dyson Design Award - 1st place US division, 2010 + 1st place, Grand Challenge Stories Award - US National Academy of Engineers, 2010 + Winner, World Technology Award, 2010 + Awarded Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship, March 2007
SPEAKING
+ Keynote Panel, Digital Signage Expo (Las Vegas: January 2013) + Transbay Festival, "Delighting with Data" (San Francisco: October 2012) + VOX, the 4D - augmented reality - conference (Los Angeles: September 2012) + DLD Cities (London: September 2012) + UP Singapore, Urban Prototyping Conference (Singapore: June 2012) + South by South West Interactive (Austin: March 2012) + Personalization in Mobile Applications (Chicago: October 2011) + Designing Healthier Lifestyles: American Institute of Architects Forum (LA: October 2011) + The Summer of Smart (San Francisco: July and October 2011) + Screen Media Expo (London: May 2011) + From Rust Belt to Artist Belt (Detroit: April 2011) + Forum on Future Cities (Boston: April 2011) + South by South West Interactive (Austin: March 2011) + Project Fresh Presents Government 2.0 (Los Angeles: February 2011) + Red Car Colloquium: rethinking urban transportation (San Francisco: September 2010) + Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Speaker Series (San Francisco: August, 2010) + Future of Urbanism (Michigan: March 2010) + Digital Signage Expo (Las Vegas: February 2010) + COP15 Climate Conference (Copenhagen: December 2009) +
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS
+ The Citizen, The Cloud & The Smart City (forthcoming, 2013) + Blogger on UBM's Future Cities network (2012 - ongoing) + Ubiquitous Multimodality: building your own mobility network (forthcoming, MIT press) + "How Weeds became a marketing high for MIT's hybrid wheel" (Fast Code Design, 2011) + "Uncover LA Interview" (2011) + "Data Cycle: Behind MIT's SENSEable City Lab" (Wired, UK, 2011) + "The Copenhagen Wheel" (Wallpaper*, Thailand edition, 2010) + "The bike wheel that's too clever for it's own good" (The Guardian Online, 2010) + "Car or Computer, how transportation is becoming more connected" (BBC Business News, 2010) + "The e-bike and the city" (Metropolis Magazine, 2010) + Chapter in Ecological Urbanism (Lars Muller Publishers, 2010) + Featured in "Velo, Bicycle Culture & Design" (2010) + Featured in "Green Design" (Braun Publishing, Switzerland, 2010) + "For cyclists needing a boost, this wheel may help" (New York Times, 2009) + "Following trash through the waste disposal system" (New York Times, 2009) + "Bike Friendlier with Facebook" (Scientific American, Earth 3.0 Special Edition, 2009) + Technological Imagination & The Historic City: Florence (Liguori Editore, 2009) + Featured in E-city, Digital Networks & Cities of the Future (Actar, Barcelona 2009) + "From MIT, a quantum leap in bike mechanics" (Boston Globe, 2008) + "Facebook App keeps Danish Cyclists in Touch" (Wired Magazine, 2008)