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...
Hacking the Questions We Ask
Ask yourself, if you were shut in a room for twenty-four hours with some town planners and programmers, and charged with building an AI-powered solution for the UK planning system, what would you do? If you were absurdly pedantic, you might start by asking, "What do...
The State of AI in Placemaking
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...
Will AI Take my Job?
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;...
