YAPSULE CONFERENCE

9th Nov 2024

83 Rivington Street
London, UK

This conference was hosted by CAPSULE, curated by designer Ted Childish. It came from the need to provide third spaces for kids to have conversations about culture with the people creating it. It brought internet culture to a real life space, facilitating discussions with the leading thinkers and creatives shaping youth culture. It especially focused on bringing to light those that tend to be unseen, the individuals that make up the infrastructure behind our favourite cultural projects.

We used an education-first approach, empowering young people with the technical knowledge as well as imagination needed to have what it takes to build a career, or hobby, in the creative industries. The event was entirely self-funded to provide a space for young people to discuss without vested corporate interests that typically prop up youth culture events, and prove to youth we can discover alternative economic structures for our culture.

The event was 16+ and free for all to attend. We had 350 people in attendance throughout the day.

Innovator-In-Residence 2024

August-November 2024

The American School in London invited Christina as Innovator-In-Residence for the 2024/25 academic year. Within her time at the school, her aim was to bring students on a journey of reframing what change making looks like in our cultural and political context. She hoped to show young people that they can create impact through various mediums that don’t have to subscribe to the traditional route of activism, drawing on her experience in campaigning, working with industry and policymakers, journalism, systems thinking, and youth culture to make this case.

During her time at ASL, Christina worked with the community in three ways:

  1. Keynotes and sessions connected to advisory through the lens of dialogue across difference

  2. Workshops for high school councils and clubs on language and frameworks for social change, including guest speakers and off-site learning engagements

  3. Collaboration with teachers to connect to the classroom curriculum.

UNIFORM DISPLAY MAG

January-June 2024

Uniform Display is an online platform for the fashion forward, with a following of around 600,000 on Instagram.

As Editor-In-Chief of Uniform Display’s debut magazine, Christina’s aim with the publication was to connect mediums of youth culture - music, fashion and art - to the socio-economic challenges of London through the lens of some of the city’s icons and emerging artists.

From the street style guide to a native’s secrets, it brought together some of the most exciting voices in London to show what this city really has to offer as well as confront the problems of the city and highlight existing solutions.

A key theme in the publication was the loss of third spaces in the city, and how young people have started to create physical spaces for themselves.

Features include Ottolenghi, Fashion Roadman, Kilo, Beau Beaus, Oreglo and Xanthe Clay.