Geoff Christou

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About Geoff Christou

Geoff Christou is an Architect and Game Designer in Toronto, Canada. As a Game Designer he has most recently designed the popular dexterity game POISE: a game of equilibrium. He also worked with Spinmaster Toys while Lead Designer at Our Paper Life Inc. He has designed and manufactured experiential marketing activations and furniture (all out of cardboard) for organization like Weston Foods, the Luminato Art Festival, the Swiss Government, the Pan-Am Games, Statistics and Elections Canada, and many more partners. As an Architect has been intensely involved in implementing Net Zero Carbon and high performance sustainable buildings in Ontario as part of the architecture firm Coolearth Architecture. Over this time he has worked on projects that range from childcares, hospices, community centres, to single family residential homes. As a permaculture designer, Geoff Christou co-created and stewards the 1/4 acre Balsam Food Forest, a food forest located near MacKellar, in central Ontario, Zone 5a. He has done this in partnership with many dozens of friends and family members have also helped to realize, steward, and enjoy the Balsam food forest. He has also been responsible for the permaculture site design of the Mariposa Hospice in Orillia, the Breezeway Passive House in Toronto, and helped numerous people across Ontario realize their permaculture landscapes. You can see more of Geoff’s work on Instagram or on his website.