Dear Jeremy,
I have pointed out to many PhD design students that they need a psychology
of design.
Affordances fit, for me, within psychological models of design.
Object Relations theory is a useful place to start - Anna Freud, Melanie
Klein, Donald Winnicott - Winnicott is a good entry point since he deals
extensively with play and art objects as special objects (subject objects).
Hope this helps
keith
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>One of my students asked the pertinent, if difficult question of...
>
>What role does the theory of affordances play in design and the design
>process?
>
>Initially it seems flippantly simple to answer this.... and then I suspect
>it is the matter of several books, so I thought I'd open it to discussion.
>Is the theory of affordances, Gibson or others, central? is it, as I'd
>suggest, necessary for anyone thinking of a ph.d. in design to understand,
>even if they don't support it?
>
>
>-j
>
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