Sebastian is CEO at PlaceChangers Ltd. and a lecturer in Digital Civics (part-time) at Newcastle’s School for Architecture, Planning, and Landscape (APL). He earned a PhD in digital innovation from Lancaster University focusing on improvement of consultation processes in local government. He is knowledgeable of bottom-up participation in urban development enabled by locative media. He works with residents, urban planners, city administration professionals, property developers, and ‘techies’ of different domains of computing.