Why you need to learn to think like the people who disagree with you.
About the speaker
Peter Drew was born in 1983 in Adelaide. He holds a Masters Degree from the Glasgow School of Art. His artworks have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia, though his most prominent work is installed on city streets.
“I like to exhibit my art on the street because public space is a great equaliser, and it’s also an ancient forum. When you address the public through the street you’re entering into a tradition that emphasises our fundamental freedom of expression, over the value of property... I enjoy examining our collective identities and my aim is always to emphasize the connections that bind up, rather than the fractures that divide us.”
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Fear of the other is natural, inevitable, almost forgivable, and that's why you need courage in order to come together.
This sort of sarcasm is a little bit cheap and easy in some ways because it affirms nothing, it really risks nothing. And so I wanted to attempt a little bit more.
[These posters] provoked a creative tsunami of people reacting to it, making it their own, redesigning it, and it's something I couldn't anticipate.
If you'd like to get along with people who are fundamentally different to you, I think you need to find things to motivate them in particular.
You can't cure fear with compassion
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Billy Blue College of Design
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Photographer Mark Lobo
Videographer Matt Hall
