"[S]tock photography’s ambient qualities are centred on aesthetic choices that may make urban sites and surfaces that are often unremarkable and utilitarian if not downright precarious and alienating more engaging and even comforting."
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"This is a mood that feeds on encounters with familiar and flexible subjects which may make us feel close to these sites and surfaces, and also good about ourselves as we traverse the city."
"At the same time, this ambient imagery personally invites us into the spaces it occupies in ways that may enable us to start imagining what life in the city could be like in a more sensuous, embodied manner."
So, what are the experiential and sensorial encounters that will set apart a city when AI images become its ambient imagery? What kinds of 'mood', 'atmosphere' and 'embodiment' will these encounters promote, and how will these contribute to transforming our approaches to urban living and 'being'?
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