Morgen Peers

Morgen Peers is passionate about placemaking and the creative endeavours that support it. He lives in Ontario where he advises municipalities and public sector groups on the effective use of information and data. Civic administration is evolving influenced by creative adoption of information technologies. He tracks these shifts in management and communicates their meaning to residents and decision makers.

In 2010 Morgen counseled City of Ottawa staff in drafting a successful Open Government motion promoting public access to municipal data. He adapts knowledge of this movement to the needs and disposition of smaller towns. He discusses Open Government as total information management enabling comprehensive town planning. As a formal planning student, Morgen is interested in the evolution of the planning profession and the increasingly prominent role of information exchange.

A visual communicator, Morgen combines practice of information design with knowledge of plain language and group decision making. The majority of his infographics and diagrams are created for large-scale printing. He’s interested in how groups use “paper spaces” to think aloud, connect, and cooperate. 

Work focuses on several distinct but related areas: accessible information design, plain language issues, community mapping and building, information and data visualization, the "open organization", organizational process and finance mapping, and cultural planning.