Robert Wong 2011

Creative Economy/2011/47 min/Reel № 11.001

ByRobert Wong

Robert Wong: How Google is adding humanity to technology

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

Robert Wong 2011
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A close reading, kept within reach.

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Robert Wong 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 USA in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Robert'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.

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Robert Wong shows how Google is positively impacting people’s lives by adding humanity to technology.

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Robert Wong

New York/USA

Creative director of Google Creative Lab Robert Wong believes that technology should be about positive interactions, humanity, surprise and creativity.