Affordance

Affordance is word coined from the verb "afford" by the American perceptual psychologist J.J Gibson (1904-1979) in order to interpret the structure of perception and cognition. It can be considered that from the second half of the 1970s the concept provided a clue to creating configurations in design too. This means that in the relationship between a human being and object&sbquo the configurations of the object should posses a set-up water "tells&sbquo" or affords&sbquo provides&sbquo or suggests its use. For example&sbquo a cup containing "tells" people to seek shelter under its branches. When we feel that we are being "spoken to" by the object&sbquo it's possible to conclude that its configuration has embodied perceptual and conceptual properties. The incorporation of affordance (especially one that confers great convenience) by an object into the very elements of its form or configuration has great significance if we treat it as a methodological concept of design. Gibsonian scholars took important concepts in perception and cognition as proposed by Gibson and theorized on their test and verifiability as methodological concepts in communication&sbquo and expanded on the interpretation of the concepts and their tentative application as a method. However&sbquo the concepts were nothing more than the concepts that contemporary European and American studies in visual cognition had struggled to establish. In the east&sbquo and in Japan in particular&sbquo the concept that an object's configuration could arouse a human mental state had already existed in some form&sbquo as evidenced by the existence of the word monogatari (story) and monoganasii (sorrowful)&sbquo monosugoi (extraordinary)&sbquo and monomonosii (pretentious)&sbquo where mono means "object&sbquo" and the imprecation is that objects are "speaking to" the person. I'd like to think that a thorough consideration of the synonymy and differences between "affordance vs. monogatari" is valid for the design of form. However&sbquo it's my opinion that affordance will completely loose its significance in the perception of configurations in theories of space that has not yet been perceived or experienced.

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