Change-Ability for a World in Flux

Rietveld, Erik

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“…First of all, as we have seen above in the reply to Stokhof, RAAAF’s interventions do not foreclose possibilities but are open-ended in that they allow people to find out for themselves what might work for them. Second, we believe it is crucial to promote visions that support change-ability : the skill of coordinating with a rapidly changing world (see Rietveld, 2022b, this volume). Humans are currently living through a time of accelerating social, technological, and ecological change.…”

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“…Lysen is right to point out that we had discussed The End of Sitting mostly in relation to individual behavioral change, but that change-ability of sociomaterial practices requires collective behavioral change. Most of the excellent questions she raises will be part of my new Change-Ability research project (see Rietveld, 2022b in this volume), so it is too soon to answer these here. For now, it is worth observing how The End of Sitting also changed collective patterns of behavior of the people in the installation.…”

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Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations

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Kiverstein

2022

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We organized our reply to the rich set of commentaries on Erik’s inaugural lecture—The affordance of art for making technologies—around the following five themes. (1) The experience of artworks and whether such experiences can be described in terms of the affordances of artworks. (2) The possibility that engagement with artworks offers for the transformation of ourselves and the sociomaterial practices we take part in. (3) The claim that artworks can serve as what Annemarie Mol describes as “material propositions” that can be used to engage philosophical reflection. (4) The temporality of making practices and how art installations can be thought of as places in which past, present, and future meet. (5) How art could potentially enable a better embedding of technologies in society.

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Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations

Rietveld

Kiverstein

2022

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“…The Skilled Intentionality Framework is a conceptual framework Erik and his team have developed for ecological-enactive cognitive science that aims to investigate human cognitive processes at the organisational scale of the whole person in their skilled engagement with a living environment of affordances (Rietveld et al, 2018). The special issue closes with an opinion article in which Erik outlines the next steps in his research investigating the affordances of artworks (Rietveld, 2022b). Erik provides an overview of the Change-Ability Framework (CAF)a conceptual framework that analyses skills for coordinating with a rapidly changing world.…”

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Editorial – The affordances of art

Kiverstein

2022

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This special issue on the theme of the affordances of art is organised around a lecture Erik Rietveld presented at the University of Twente on the occasion of being appointed as Socrates Professor. In his lecture, Erik describes three affordance-related aspects of the making practices at Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances (RAAAF), a visual art and architecture studio Erik and his brother Ronald Rietveld founded in 2006. The special issue includes 22 reflections on Erik’s lecture written by commentators from a broad range of different fields including art history, architecture, ecological psychology, dynamical systems cognitive science, anthropology, archaeology and the philosophy of 4e cognition. Erik and I provide a response that reflects on what it means to make philosophical art installations. The special issue also includes an interview conducted with art-historian Anja Novak reflecting on the potential of ecological-enactive cognitive science to further our understanding of experiential engagement with art. Finally, Erik has written an opinion article in which he sets out the next steps in his research programme of developing a conceptual framework for understanding ‘change-ability’ – skills for coordinating with a rapidly changing world. The key insight behind the framework is that changing the affordances of the living environment can contribute to changing otherwise rigid and undesirable patterns of behaviour. Erik reflects on the role that artworks can play in inviting reflection on how the practices that organise and shape human life could be different, a task that is increasingly urgent in a time when removing obstacles to change is necessary.

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“…More recently, however, much work has been done to extend the scope of embodied and situated accounts to so-called “higher” cognition. Embodied accounts have made headway in understanding imagination (Gallagher, 2017; van Dijk & Rietveld, 2020), mathematical cognition (e.g., Abrahamson et al, 2020; Zahidi & Myin, 2016), anticipation (e.g., Jurgens & Kirchhoff, 2019; Stepp & Turvey, 2015; van Dijk & Rietveld, 2021a), change-ability (Rietveld, 2022), language (Atkinson, 2010; Kiverstein & Rietveld, 2021; Van Den Herik, 2018; van Dijk & Rietveld, 2021b), and more. These works generate doubt about the veracity and productivity of the higher-lower cognition dichotomy and help make sense of the mind using a unified approach.…”

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The causal mind: An affordance-based account of causal engagement

2023

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Causal cognition is a core aspect of how we deal with the world; however, existing psychological theories tend not to target intuitive causal engagement that is done in daily life. To fill this gap, we propose an Ecological-Enactive (E-E) affordance-based account of situated causal engagement, that is, causal judgments and perceptions. We develop this account to improve our understanding of this way of dealing with the world, which includes making progress on the causal selection problem, and to extend the scope of embodied cognitive science to causal cognition. We characterize identifying causes as selectively attending to the relevant ecological information to engage with relevant affordances, where these affordances are dependent on individual abilities. Based on this we construe causal engagement as based on a learned skill. Moreover, we argue that to understand judgments of causation as we make them in our daily lives, we need to see them as situated in sociocultural practices. Practices are about doing, and so this view helps us understand why people make these judgments so ubiquitously: to get things done, to provide an effective path to intervening in the world. Ultimately this view on causal engagement allows us to account for individual differences in causal perceptions, judgments, and selections by appealing to differences in learned skills and sociocultural practices.

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Change-Ability for a World in Flux

Cited by 11 publications

References 78 publications

Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations

Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations

Editorial – The affordances of art

The causal mind: An affordance-based account of causal engagement

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