Cristina Ampatzidou is a researcher and curator with a background in Architecture and Urbanism focusing on co-creative and participatory design processes, and the affordances of new media and digital technologies, particularly serious games, for sustainable urban futures.
Cristina is a design researcher for the Transition Scapes project at the Civic Interaction Design research group and the Head of Programming for the Architecture Film Festival of Rotterdam. Previously, she was a Research Fellow for the H2020 project CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures, where she led the Engagement and Dissemination work package at RMIT Europe. She has carried out doctoral research on serious games for sustainability at the University of Groningen and worked as an Embedded Researcher for Smart and Social Cities for the Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis project, a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam, the Mobile City and One Architecture.