Tea Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this
Tom Uglow: Zo zou een internet zonder schermen eruit kunnen zien
Tea Uglow leads part of Google's Creative Lab specializing in work with cultural organizations, artists, writers and producers on experiments using digital technology at the boundaries of traditional cultural practice. Full bio
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to go to your happy place, please.
om je geluksplekje te bezoeken.
Iedereen heeft dat, echt of niet.
the following questions.
de volgende vragen beantwoorden.
in your happy place?
op je geluksplekje?
zijn geluksplekje met de natuur, buiten --
somewhere natural, outdoors --
by natural light and organic elements.
en organische stoffen.
we strive for happiness.
we streven naar geluk.
we're always redesigning everything,
dingen opnieuw ontwerpen,
might feel more natural.
natuurlijker aanvoelen.
should feel natural.
natuurlijk moet aanvoelen.
aan je telefoon,
you're addicted to your phone,
that flows through them.
die erdoorheen vloeit.
happy in your happy place
op je geluksplekje,
from the outside world.
that information,
of static information,
met statische informatie,
bibliotheken en bushaltes,
to access anything, anywhere at any time,
en altijd kunnen vinden,
to medieval viticulture,
tot middeleeuwse wijnbouw,
my phone very much --
niet zo van mijn telefoon hou --
to experience information.
dan een wereld gedomineerd door schermen.
than a world mediated by screens.
maar ik voel me --
erover gebogen doorbrengen.
we spend slouched over them.
het daarmee eens.
in touch and speech and gesture,
aan aanraakinvoer en gebaren,
dumb objects, like cups,
zoals een beker,
of the Internet,
kunnen dompelen,
over de schermtijd van hun kind,
teaching their kids to read,
om hun kinderen lezen te leren,
that's already really happening.
dan beeldschermen.
atoms and molecules bound in space,
atomen en moleculen gefixeerd op één plek,
to the moment of my experience.
tot het moment van mijn ervaring.
a richer experience than a screen?
dan vanachter een scherm?
I need the enormous screen.
waarvoor ik het enorme scherm nodig heb.
with these magic boxes.
kun je veel meer doen.
the Internet's door bitch.
voor het internet.
physical things,
in de wereld om ons heen.
into the world around us.
a few examples of those.
van laten zien.
with a design agency, Berg,
met ontwerpbureau Berg
without screens might actually look like.
zonder schermen eruit zou kunnen zien.
and physical objects
met fysieke objecten samenwerkt
to make it tangible.
en tastbaar te maken.
YouTube player.
YouTube-speler bijvoorbeeld.
the Japanese agency, AQ,
met het Japanse bureau AQ
naar geestelijke gezondheid.
around mood swings
bij stemmingswisselingen kon vastleggen,
very hard if you're angry,
kun je er hard in knijpen,
those moments later,
an intimate, beautiful thing
prachtig voorwerp maken,
a birthday present
verjaardag van het Sydney Opera House.
40th anniversary.
brought over a pair of street binoculars,
gaven ons een straatverrekijker,
on the Empire State Building,
op het Empire State Building,
360 graden uitzicht in aan
onder de trap geïnstalleerd.
simple reappropriation,
portaal naar deze andere iconen geschapen.
or Shackleton's Hut.
of Shackleton's Hut in zien.
reality circa 1955.
circa 1955.
hacky sacks to exchange URLs.
om webadressen uit te wisselen.
it's like your Opal card.
net als je ov-chipkaart.
on the little chip in here,
op de kleine chip hierin
that we're working on
aan het project Bomenknuffelaar
here in Sydney.
about what might happen
over de mogelijkheden
and you put the bits into trees,
en de onderdelen in bomen stopt,
might have an opportunity
guided by a magic wand,
geleid door een toverstaf,
and ask them questions,
en vragen stellen,
nog in het karton-stadium.
with this one.
back outside without screens,
en bij hun schermen vandaan te krijgen,
of the Internet at their fingertips.
binnen hun bereik blijft.
working by the end of the year.
tegen het einde van het jaar.
aan eenvoudige hulpstukken.
how we design for the future,
hoe we voor de toekomst ontwerpen
of information that we're moving into.
het informatietijdperk dat we betreden.
rather than simply excited.
en niet gelijk euforisch.
of human history.
in de menselijke geschiedenis.
that actually build our world,
artists, engineers.
architecten, kunstenaars, ingenieurs.
we can have a happy place
echt een geluksplekje maken
met onze favoriete informatie
as switching on lightbulb.
als het licht aandoen.
is watches and websites and widgets,
websites en apparaatjes wil,
to cork and light and hacky sacks.
over kurk, licht en hacky sacks.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tea Uglow - DesignerTea Uglow leads part of Google's Creative Lab specializing in work with cultural organizations, artists, writers and producers on experiments using digital technology at the boundaries of traditional cultural practice.
Why you should listen
Tea Uglow has worked at Google for nearly 10 years, starting Google's Creative Lab in Europe and, since 2012, building a Creative Lab for the Asia Pacific region in Sydney, Australia. She works with cultural organizations and practitioners to enable artists, writers and performers to look at new ways in which we can use digital technology to augment traditional art, theatre and music. Uglow believes that by experimenting with digital tools at the creative core of culture we can transform existing cultural practice without losing the tradition, values and intangible qualities that make the arts so valuable.
Previous projects include Editions at Play (books), Hangouts in History (education), Dream40 (theatre, with the RSC), Build with Chrome (with LEGO), Web Lab (with London's Science Museum), Life in a Day (YouTube film with Ridley Scott) and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra (with the LSO). Uglow is proud of her early involvement in the Art Project (now Google's Cultural Institute).
Uglow speaks on innovation and digital futures around the world. At the time of her TEDxSydney talk (2015), Tea was still presenting as male and using her boy-name, which is Tom.
Uglow studied fine art at the Ruskin in Oxford before completing two further degrees in book arts and design management at UAL. She spent six years in art publishing and design management for charities as well as in various digital start-ups before joining Google in 2006. Prior to Google, Uglow worked for the Royal Academy of Arts, the Wellcome Trust, Random House and Christian Aid. She is on the board of the Biennale of Sydney (art) and formerly D&AD (design) and AWARD (advertising).
Uglow is also a very active and proud parent of two small boys. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
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