Exploring the dynamics of architecture with the concept of affordance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21591728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Turid Borgestrand Øien (0000-0003-1163-1038, Aalborg University, corresponding author), Sidse Grangaard (0000-0003-3814-6614, Aalborg University), Victoria Linn Lygum (0000-0003-1568-2211, Aalborg University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1858-1877 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09515089.2023.2273400 |
| OpenAlex | W4387951813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
From an architectural perspective, the purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic relations between individuals and the environments using the concept of affordance. In three different cases of architectural research, the concept of affordance is used as an analytical tool – yet demonstrating different scopes and outcomes. A post-occupancy evaluation of an office space in transformation; a lighting assessment and intervention in low vision rehabilitation situated in private home environments; and an urban event at an architecture festival involving the intervention of a sound- and scentscape. The three cases show that the concept of affordance can embrace and operationalize the human perception of the environment, pointing at descriptive, prescriptive, and exploratory possibilities in relation to architectural design and research. The concept of affordance enables rich descriptions and explorations of qualities of architecture, related to multisensorial, emotional, and social interactional aspects of humans and their environments
Affordance · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Exploratory research · Human–computer interaction · Operationalization · Perception · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Design Education and Practice · Psychology · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urban Green Space and Health · Architecture · Artificial Intelligence
Reasons for realism
The Production of Knowledge
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Sense of Place, Fast and Slow
The role of affordance in the experience of virtual reality learning
Tourism, technology and ICT
Empathy and the responsiveness to social affordances
An Outline of a Theory of Affordances
Affordances, Dynamic Experience, and the Challenge of Reification
Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’
The Perception of the Environment
The Hidden Dimension
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |