Robert’s designs innovative economic solutions for a sustainable planet and builds data narratives to generate insight and knowledge. His work is influenced by his operational experiences in international humanitarian operations and systems approaches to human resilience. At QWB Lab his interest is turning cultural assets such as public libraries, museums, art galleries into generators of wellbeing to build SMARTer Cities, encouraging inclusivesness, accessibility and reducing urban immiseration.
QWB Lab won an innovation award from the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and is currently working with Carinthia Museum and Carintia University of Applied Sciences to use broadband and UX technology to scale up impact & accessiblity to culture. He is a technical member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and an alumnus of the Impulse Program for entrepreneurship and innovation.He received an oversea humantarian service medal from Australia for service in the Balkans conflict
