Affordance
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| “ | The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill. The verb to afford is found in the dictionary, the noun affordance is not. I have made it up. I mean by it something that refers to both the environment and the animal in a way that no existing term does. It implies the complementarity of the animal and the environment. | ” |
| — James J.Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979) | ||
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Affordance is a possibility of action which the environment offers the individual.
Concept relevance
In Sense-making
In the Flexuous curves framework
In the Estuarine framework
In ethics and Cynefin
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Principles
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Frameworks
Concepts and metaphors
Methods
References
Articles and books
- James J.Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979)
- Mark Reybrouck, Musical Sense-Making and the Concept of Affordance, Springer (January 29, 2012)
- Nick Brancazio, Being Perceived and Being “Seen”: Interpersonal Affordances, Agency, and Selfhood, Frontiers in Psychology (July 30, 2020)
Blog posts
- Dave Snowden, Cynefin & Ethics (2 of 2), Cognitive Edge Blog (December 19, 2021), quotes Gibson's book and establishes connections between affordances and ethics, and with other concepts