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Alastair Somerville

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Jun 12

Weeding not Weedkiller

Alastair Somerville, 2026

Text banner — storytelling, story changing, storyending

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Jun 5

What is the future sense of Living?

What is the future sense of Living?

Duree matters — the living experience of here and now

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Jun 1

Storyending

The problem of too much storytelling by polticians and corporations who never take responsibility for ending the tales of hope and change…

The need to deliberately end storytelling.

The need to clearly say that the manifesto promises and the design fiction futures are not going to happen.

The need to stop leaving stories of hope open to rot into the resentments that fuel far right politics.

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May 27

Making Games

Slide showing how to make and play the Dungeon and Drag Down game. Template shows how to draw maps.

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May 21

Deknowledgification?

The mass job losses in academia and digital industries now remind me of the 1980's.

Text comparison of Deindustrialisation and 2020’s Deknowledgication

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May 18

Paying attention to community

I am planning to facilitate a few online (maybe hybrid — with in-person in Stroud, UK) happenings on community development.

Showing the cover of the Community Builder’s Journal and some zines on Attention

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May 13

Finding the right words at the start of a project

Diagram of the four part process of Listing words, Writing down definitions, mapping meanings and sharing views

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May 8

Unsee’ing and Breach’ing

Unsee’ing came up at CampDigital yesterday while taking about walking around places like an alien, perception and human-centred design.

Badge for Unsee — We notice and remember what is useful to us. We unsee many things.

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May 4

Playing With Attention

I have just finished Attensity. It is a book created by the American collective The Friends of Attention.

Attensity’s 6 questions about what to think about

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Apr 29

The subtleties of being human

The rush to AI is built on top of an idea that digitalisation and data can replicate and comprehend being human. The big datasets and…

I’m human — I’m qualia’fied for this work

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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