Jeremy,
can you write a design dissertation without the concept of affordance, absolutely
what role do affordances play in design? i would say a central one whenever you are concerned with user interactions with the objects of design. the concept gets rid of the determinisms of what designers were accustomed to realize and focuses instead on possible uses that designers may not have imagined but are encouraged to consider.
my "the semantic turn" makes heavy use of the concept. i invite you to read chapter three for a starter.
i should mention that you'll find a lot of uses of the term that bend its meaning into familiar semiotic categories. this limits the very epistemology that the concept of affordance has opened up.
klaus
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Subject: the role of affordances in design
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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