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Peter Pielaet-Strayer
Experience & Environment Design

Wine With Pete

Atmosphere, ritual, facilitation

Wine With Pete is a gathering-based project that uses food, wine, and conversation to create environments for reflection, connection, and meaningful exchange.

What it is

Wine With Pete is a gathering-based project that uses food, wine, and conversation to create environments for reflection, connection, and meaningful exchange.

Rather than treating learning as something that only happens in formal instruction, the project focuses on how atmosphere, ritual, hospitality, and shared experience shape how people engage, think, and relate. Attention, conversation, and presence are intentionally shaped, allowing for deeper dialogue, perspective, and engagement.

Wine is part of the medium, not the central purpose. This is not a wine decision-making tool, not a consumer wine education product, and not primarily about choosing wine.

What it demonstrates

  • Designing learning through environment and atmosphere
  • Structuring open-ended experiences without over-controlling them
  • Using facilitation and context to shape engagement

What I built

Atmosphere, ritual, facilitation

Wine With Pete is a gathering-based project that uses food, wine, and conversation to create environments for reflection, connection, and meaningful exchange.

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Let’s design learning that people can actually run.

If you want to build learning across physical and digital environments, I’ll respond with a clear set of questions and a suggested first prototype.