Yesterday I was proudly told by a senior academic now a senior researcher at #Google #Deepmind that they are hiring more philosophers and ethicists.

This is a BAD THING. Settingaside teh fact that these are insecure jobs since corporations may change their mind about this direction on a whim, and only have the thinnest veneer of #AcademicFreedom, this is a further example of the privatisation of the #PublicRealm

#AI #AIEthics #Philosophy

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Stopped at Broombridge on the Sligo train and it just struck me how poorly lit many public spaces here are. Not long after 5pm and it doesn’t exactly leave people feeling safe. I was thinking similar about O’Connell Street the other night too. Obviously garish light pollution isn’t desirable but waiting and walking in poorly spaces is off putting for a lot of groups of people

#Ireland #PublicRealm #Lighting

Urban Geometry at Night

The brutalist architecture of Bishop Lucey Park seems to suit black and white night shots. This was only my first time trying to photograph it in such a way but I’ll try again.

#architecturalPhotography #atmosphericPhotography #bishopLuceyPark #blackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography2 #brutalistArchitecture #cityParks #concreteStructures #contemporaryArchitecture #cork #fluorescentLighting #heritageSites #ireland #modernDesign #nightPhotography #nighttimeUrban #photo #photography #publicRealm #publicSpaces #streetPhotography #urbanGeometry #urbanRegeneration #urbanSpaces

A Sunlit Afternoon on the Wall

This is me standing on the old walls of Cork where I took this photo in Bishop Lucey Park yesterday afternoon. The sun had already started to head to the horizon and it wasn’t even 3pm, but it did light up the mural on the wall and placed the ground in front of me in shadow.

For many in Ireland, November is firmly in the winter months of the year. It seems to be a traditional Irish/Celtic thing because Met Éireann uses meteorological seasons which classify September, October and November as autumn.

#afternoonLight #architecture #autumn #bishopLuceyPark #civicPride #communitySpace #contemporaryArt #cork #culturalHeritage #culturalSpaces #historicWalls #ireland #irishCities #mural #openSpaces #photo #photography #publicArt #publicRealm #publicSpace #streetArt #streetPhotography #urbanRegeneration

⚡️ DUBLINERS ⚡️ Dublin City Council is progressing the College Green and Dame Street Public Realm Project. 🥳

Have you taken the survey? It takes just a few minutes. https://engage.dublincity.ie/projects/college-green-dame-street-public-realm-project

Let them know your thoughts! (Unless you disagree, then just say nothin'.)

#StreetsAreForPeople #Dublin #PublicRealm #BanCars #DCC #DublinCityCouncil #MastoDaoine

"Over the last three decades, places and spaces where people come together to participate in activities and engage with those from different backgrounds have been decimated.

“…funding cuts have led to the closure of more than two-thirds of council-run youth centres in England and Wales since 2010.

"Almost 800 libraries were closed during the 2010s, and more continue to disappear each year. Leisure centres are also at risk. A 2023 report by the Local Government Association suggests that 40% of council areas will lose some or all of their leisure centre services in the next two years.

"The undermining of publicly-owned community spaces has been matched in the private sector… …nearly 300 pubs closed across England and Wales in 2024 – an equivalent of six a week”.

#UKPolitics
#Austerity
#PublicRealm
#ANationOfStrangers

https://theconversation.com/britain-is-already-becoming-an-island-of-strangers-but-immigration-isnt-the-driver-256724

Always nice to see nature claiming back a left-hand turn.

Thanks Dublin City Council for these #PublicRealm improvements.

Pre-design survey for the is now open for the College Green - Dame Street Public Realm Project and will remain open for the next two weeks.

Have your say on the project now to inform the design process.

#Dublin #PublicRealm #UrbanDesign

https://engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projects/college-green-dame-street-public-realm-project

This is an excellent explainer of the phenomenon of #motonormativity - a phrase coined by Professor Ian Walker of Swansea University to describe the unconscious bias we have towards driving and how it impacts on our approach to public policy and public realm design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4GZnGl55c

#PublicRealm #UrbanDesign #LiveableCities #CarDependency #TransportPlanning

Activists exposing unenforced footpath parking for what it is - free parking.

Neither Dublin City Council nor An Garda Síochána are interested in enforcing this kind of behavior so why not just admit that driving a car makes you the dominant species in urban environment at the expense of people who walk, wheel and cycle.

#motonormativity #carmageddon #SustainableTransport #PublicRealm #Accessibility #Phibsborough #Dublin

https://irishcycle.com/2024/07/22/motorists-make-good-use-of-new-parking-spaces-marked-out-on-dublin-footpaths/