Creative Economy/2017/21 min/Reel № 17.001
ByLuis von Ahn
Founder of Duolingo at the Design Indaba Conference 2017
Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017
A close reading, kept within reach.
Luis von Ahn takes creative economy as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Guatamala in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Luis's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Luis von Ahn launched the first African language course on Duolingo as part of his Design Talk.
About the speaker
Luis von Ahn
USA/Guatamala
Tech entrepreneur and crowdsourcing pioneer Luis von Ahn is best known for creating CAPTCHAs and the language-learning platform Duolingo.
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