Hi all, This website, AI Envisions, is about how AI can impact the placemaking nexus: that group of actors, including regular people, involved in interpreting, responding to and re-making place in any form. You may not know, but I also write about place more...
This article is adapted from my 2024 Q3 quarterly GenAI for Placemaking newsletter, which went out to subscribers at the start of October, and which you are able to sign up for below. Doesn’t it strike you that art and visualisation are rather similar? Certainly, if...
This article first appeared in my 2024 Q1 quarterly GenAI for Design newsletter, which you are able to sign up for below. Perhaps I’m not qualified to comment on this as to do so would require access to the brains of many different professionals, all at different...
Is AI going to take my job? Is this actually an interesting question? Perhaps in a sense no, although I feel I would have to take a stab at answering it to explain why. First of all, terminology. I'm talking specifically about generative AI here, not AI in general;...
I'm not quite sure how this happened (not at all sure, actually), but I've managed to create a rather fascinating series of architecture/fashion hybrids. Take a look and then I'll guide you through the process... These slightly disturbing images are the result of...
In the following post, ChatGPT and I have worked together to create a bombastic and overblown argument that something quite banal is in fact extremely important. I hope you find it informative. Cherry blossoms, the iconic symbol of life's ephemeral beauty, possess the...
I've been interested by the outcome of these recent studies in midcentury modern architecture in combination with cars. As you'll probably be aware from the emerging content of this website, my two passions are placemaking and cars, and one of these things I've found...
Welcome to the fusion of classic car sales and the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Inspired by the balance of forms and volumes, light and material, inside and out inherent in Japanese architecture, Lloyd Wright was one of the most influential architects...