Alastair Somerville

@acuity.design

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Clarity and kindness as foundations for work. Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him

Definition of Aitonomy The freedom to act as guided and constrained by the limits of generative artificial intelligence (Al) prompts and models
Nya, tabby cat, on my lap facing me
View down canal from top of arched bridge.
German ICE toilet in panoramic photo showing all the controls that are spread across the cubicle from flush to tap to soap to dryer
Warning sign has figure with what may be gas coming from bottom (it’s really about slipping over)
Two panel cartoon - author saying how new book is a warning about technologies. CEO holding up book saying let’s built these technologies
Two photos - one of high quality signs on direction of galleries and sights. The other is two paper signs taped to the wall for finding the cafe and exit
Blue green river in foreground with mountains and chalets in background. Sun slanting down as it sets.
Slightly bigger than a4 plastic tactile map on wall next to toilet. It identifies 13 features to enter/exit room and to use the loo.
Video of day trip to Venice with arrival by bus then Vaporetto. Trip down grand canal and to Basilica. Then round to Murano and finally back to Tronchetto for bus home
Video of trip by ferry to Grignano from Trieste. Past cruise ship at start, then along coast of swimming areas and finally to Miramare castle
View of the seaside white castle from ferry boat. Built in 1860’s
Hard concrete building on height of cliff. Made of many triangular windows - a rhomboid I think shape?
Video of many mechanical calculators interspersed with modern art pieces
9 photo montage of Venice - Grand Canal, bridges, Basilica, Doge palace and canals of Murano island
View of adding machines upstairs
On Vaporetto water bus, passing a gondola
View from shaded table of seaside bar of blue sea and sky. No aperol spritz in this picture.
Sign outside Spar in Trieste - Despar Express
A Keep Off sign in middle of dry path across parched lawn next to modern art gallery
Tucked in corner, a vertical silver box which is chilled water machine. Buttons for fizzy or still
Entrance hall of 19th century building - lots of marble. Door to left leads to ticket office which has shop and coffee machine. Door to right leads to stairs to toilets.
Life size statues of two 19th century ladies sliding down the bannister at main entrance in museum. There’s more on the other bannisters.
Three shot video in Ljubljana - from town centre and closing onto national flag flying on castle tower
A big grey cat with yellow eyes falling backwards after failing to catch mice in animated movie
Old map of Illyria in which Slovenia and parts of other modern Balkan countries lie
Over 1m wide silver and crystal chandelier with about 15 lights on arms
Glass of Weisserbier and schnitzel with potatoes on tray in front of me.
Big Red sign on side of building for Muzeum NON STOP
Time lapse video of large rotating head statue of Franz Kafka - layers spin around
Advert with photo of small green canvas bag and text about it being the last toiletry bag you’ll ver buy
Raspberry and blueberry kolce plus cinnamon bun and pistachio croissant
Sign warning about not vandalising monuments - figure is using hammer to chip off three lumps
The Czech greeting 'Nazdar' (Hello) is coined during the nationwide money collection to build the National Theatre.
View from box across the old Estate Theatre in Prague
Man looking pale and comatose slumped in a seat next to table with book of Dostoyevsky on it
Full window - not medieval but maybe 19th/20th century.
Lenticular art week - two kings from one angle and one king
Lenticular art week - two kings from one angle and one king
The black text is reasonable size but printed on clear acrylic and set in front of a smirched and dirty wall
Multilevel, two column TV transmitter tower
Castle above town of Denic- whitewashed with red roof
View down from top floor of station with escalators splaying off in other directions and trains and platforms below
Smeared photo of countryside and blue sky taken from train
Tall glass of beer on small seat tray
Two panel comic - author telling publisher how book is a cautionary tale about consequences of new technologies. Second panel has CEO holding up book at meeting saying let’s build some of these things
Count Binface in pose of the Hope poster of Obama campaign
Room is taken up by width of double bed. There is a projection on far wall of a red dot and some blue and yellow planes of colour
The signs for tickets, toilets, cafe, shop and exit in close up
First five step problem card held up in front of Rijksmuseum entrance
Poster in Swindon railway station for five minute dementia test. For some reason, tagline is It starts in Swindon
Production delays Production Tornado F.2s had concrete ballast in place of the Foxhunter radar, due to the development delays. This ballast became known as the "Blue Circle radar", a play on words from a British brand of cement by the same name, and the Rainbow Codes previously used for British radars.
Cat glaring over shoulder at me as she is leaning into toilet to drink
Diagram showing AI as a curved line. - a wall between managers and both staff to customers
Linked in advert for super scrum master in Manchester - no details in this headline
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence”
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence”
Headline of Starmer blocking idea of school day off after late night England football match
Matcha/Strawberry/White choc co op cookies - Brown green coloured biscuit with chunks of white and red in it.
Me talking at Stonehenge