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One map is never enough

Thankfully I just lost a bid for some museum work. It was for a tactile map of a museum that opened a few months ago in London. The bid…

Nov 1

A diagram of outstretch hands holding text about Before and During. The text is quoted later in this post.

Nov 1

Resilience in crises and actively asking for help

I saw a research paper on social identities during crises: Facilitating Collective Psychosocial Resilience.

Oct 30

Resilience in crises and actively asking for help

Oct 30

Resilience in crises and actively asking for help

Reading a research paper on social identities during crises: Facilitating Collective Psychosocial Resilience.

Oct 30

Circles of groups — some are within the biggest one named Community and some cross over.

Oct 30

Presentology

Conversations lately about projects that are trying to build hopeful futures (one from a massive new infrastructure sense and one from a…

Oct 19

text slide with Presentology at centre and past regrets, satisfactions, finished and unfinished hopes to left and many futures to right

Oct 19

Ask Questions clearly in Civic Assemblies

The hard work of Civic Assembly projects is getting institutions to actually think about questions that are answerable and actionable.

Sep 30

Diagram on the process from defining a question to enacting decisions.

Sep 30

Human Denying Design

These words from a talk by Marc Andreessen seem to summarise something about Silicon Valley and its core ideas of design.

Sep 25

“The Reality Privileged, of course, call this conclusion dystopian,” but “reality has had five thousand years to get good, and is clearly still woefully lacking for most people.”
Words from Marc Andreessen talk

Sep 25

Horizontal or vertical perspectives on history?

Read for free https://acuity.design/horizontal-or-vertical-perspectives-on-history/

Sep 22

Diagram is upside down capital L shape for horizontal sense of time and downward vertical. How ideas accrete over time on top of each other rather than go on nice linear timeline

Sep 22

Building a better relationship with AI?

Read for free https://acuity.design/building-a-better-relationship-with-ai/

Sep 3

Book cover has two empty wooden chairs facing each other

Sep 3

The Imperialization of Maths

Read for free https://acuity.design/the-imperialization-of-maths/

Aug 31

Four main quotes from Kelly Clancy book about how maths was pushed as solution to academic research problems and how Games Theory ran out of control as one form of maths in social sciences.

Aug 31

Post Normal and Dissent

After delivering the latest version of my Post Normal Design talk at CampDigital this year, I have made some new cards.

Aug 24

Aug 24

Alastair Somerville

Alastair Somerville

Sensory Design Consultant, usability researcher and workshop facilitator. www.linkedin.com/in/alastair-somerville-b48b368 Bluesky @acuity.design

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