{"id":17384,"date":"2019-08-22T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T04:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=17384"},"modified":"2019-08-22T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:10:37","slug":"see-what-i-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/see-what-i-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"See<\/i> What I Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToronto, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On 21 October 2019, I’m slated to give a talk<\/a> at the\u00a0#FITCSpotlight ‘Design Ethics<\/a>‘ event (making this my 9th appearance\u00a0at an FITC<\/a> event in the past 14 years).<\/em> Here’s an\u00a0abstract of\u00a0my presentation<\/a>…<\/p>\n

See<\/em> What I Mean?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We live in uncertain times on a rapidly warming, fragile, and over-stressed planet. Tumultuous political, social, ecological, and economic instability \u2014 along with information overload, an overwhelming pace of change, threatened eco-systems, and staggering social imbalances \u2014 threaten our individual sense of purpose, place, and wellbeing. For the majority of our planet\u2019s 7.7 billion human beings, the world remains a place of inequality, injustice, and suffering; even while the privileged of our \u201cdeveloped world\u201d frolic in a buffet of excess, with gluttonous over-consumption as the daily modus operandi.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been said that designers and artists can see and observe differently, more acutely than others \u2014 looking deep inside issues, perceiving hidden relationships and causal patterns, possessing an innate consciousness and natural tendency to question and identify needs in \u201cthe big picture.\u201d As today\u2019s world has been largely shaped by designers and intentional \u201cform-givers\u201d 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?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Toronto, Canada On 21 October 2019, I’m slated to give a talk at the\u00a0#FITCSpotlight ‘Design Ethics‘ event (making this my 9th appearance\u00a0at an FITC event in the past 14 years). Here’s an\u00a0abstract of\u00a0my presentation… See What I Mean? We live in uncertain times on a rapidly warming, fragile, and over-stressed planet. Tumultuous political, social, ecological, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,11,13,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17393,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions\/17393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}