Christine Wacta

Christine Wacta is an African born, French Architect D.P.L.G. from Paris La-Défense School of Architecture (France). She also holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota (2001). Christine is finishing her Ph.D. in advanced GeoSpatial Sciences for Architecture, Urban Design, and Historic preservation at the University Of Paris Sorbonne-Paris Cité & Paris Diderot [graduation spring 2019].

Christine worked as an Intern Architect in Dresden (Germany), Paris France, and Ellerbe Becket Architects in Minneapolis. MN, before deciding to go into teaching in 2002. She taught Interior Design at the Art institutes international MN for two years, then accepted a job at SCAD Savannah as a professor of Architecture where she taught for the last 13 years before joining GoodLands.

Her interest in intelligent city and resilience for future planning has grown to where she recently started a GeoDesign student Chapter at SCAD. Christine has worked on developing a minor in GeoDesign/GeoBIM at SCAD.

Christine believes that there is an emerging NEW discipline alongside Architecture and Urban Design, a discipline that emerges as a STRONG LINK to all other disciplines on a single, collaborative TRANS/CROSS-disciplinary platform. The GeoDesign concept and its broad application, its use of BIG DATA, sciences, and communications provide a platform that augments architects, planners, and stakeholders able to make better decisions in the creation of more RESILIENT futures.

Her vision is one of the city as a research and testing laboratory for simulating scenarios using real data in form of a game with Geolocation and temporal component. Gamifying the city? AR/VR becomes an important part of intelligent planning for regeneration.