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The evening session included a presentation by Bruce Peter, followed by dinner and a crucial activity of Christmas day - locking people together to play family games.Bruce Peter is a maritime historian conducting empirical and archival research on recent and contemporary freight and ferry transport, particularly the expansive and secretive Maersk lines. His research on the growth of this invisible but necessary industry for mass consumption reveals the extraordinary scale of production and distribution, and the ways in which it is neglected as having an impact on the environment. Christmas as a celebration allowed Bruce to talk about the global impact of the plastics industry (containers of plastic toys 'fall off' their ships and bob on the oceans for years) amongst other facets of consumption, often only reported at this time of year.
After dinner participants took the opportunity to relax with a range of retro games as are often brought out in shops around Christmas. As well as returning to some of the issues explored in the July workshop, the games allowed the group to consider the ways in which Christmas is a manufactured event plucked from the everyday and given shape by camaraderie in the face of overwhelming odds: such as understanding the rules of a old board game.
