Robert L. Peters

12 October 2020

Happy Thanksgiving!

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12 October 2020

Greetings and best wishes from Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba. We continue to “isolate” socially in this lovely spot on the western shores of Lake Winnipeg — it’s now been eight months of “shelter in place” for us…

Stay home (if you can), wear a mask, wash your hands often…


15 August 2020

equality | is greater than | division

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1 July 2020

O Canada…

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26 May 2020

Sechsundsechzig…

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9 April 2020

There is no insurmountable solitude…

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11 March 2020

Sheltering in place…

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11 November 2019

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

— G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)


24 October 2019

Fascism is cured by reading. Racism is cured by traveling.

— Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)


22 August 2019

See What I Mean?

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Toronto, Canada

On 21 October 2019, I’m slated to give a talk at the #FITCSpotlight ‘Design Ethics‘ event (making this my 9th appearance at an FITC event in the past 14 years). Here’s an abstract of my presentation

See What I Mean?

We live in uncertain times on a rapidly warming, fragile, and over-stressed planet. Tumultuous political, social, ecological, and economic instability — along with information overload, an overwhelming pace of change, threatened eco-systems, and staggering social imbalances — threaten our individual sense of purpose, place, and wellbeing. For the majority of our planet’s 7.7 billion human beings, the world remains a place of inequality, injustice, and suffering; even while the privileged of our “developed world” frolic in a buffet of excess, with gluttonous over-consumption as the daily modus operandi.

It’s been said that designers and artists can see and observe differently, more acutely than others — looking deep inside issues, perceiving hidden relationships and causal patterns, possessing an innate consciousness and natural tendency to question and identify needs in “the big picture.” As today’s world has been largely shaped by designers and intentional “form-givers” of the past few generations, are our creative professions even aware of the considerable responsibility that accompanies what we do, and of the complex forces our work exerts on aesthetic, technological, social, environmental, economic, and political fronts?

 


28 July 2019

NO.

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