Artifactual affordances within taskscapes

A particularly significant aspect of our cognition is organized through the detection of (and in response to) affordances in our interaction with things. Sociotechnical spaces are fundamentally interactive spaces where humans and things meet and are knotted together. In this paper, I will introduce...

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Autor: Vega Encabo, Jesús
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/704515
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/704515
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Artefactos
espacio de tareas
cosas
cultura material
materialidad
affordances intencionales
affordances
Artifacts
taskscape
things
material culture
materiality
intentional affordances
Filología
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Sumario:A particularly significant aspect of our cognition is organized through the detection of (and in response to) affordances in our interaction with things. Sociotechnical spaces are fundamentally interactive spaces where humans and things meet and are knotted together. In this paper, I will introduce Ingold’s notion of “taskscape”, understood as a complex array of activities, in order to analyze the type of affordances the agents respond to within interactive spaces of artifacts. I am interested in how material arti-factual culture ties meaning and matter together by making available affordances within a mutual environment composed of a set of related activities, the taskscape. Intentional affordances for artifacts are specified as practical landmarks that guide actions and reveal purposes and uses, the core of the meaning of artifacts in culture