An Ecological Approach to Conceptual Thinking in Material Engagement [PDF]
Europe's Journal of PsychologyAlthough post-cognitivist approaches have shaken the status quo by emphasising the dynamic interactions among the brain, the body, and the environment in cognition, mainstream psychological theories continue to view concepts as primarily representational
Nicolás Alessandroni +2 more
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Building cognition through material engagement
Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2022 With the ascent of robotic architecture in academic discourse, we ought to reconsider how we understand building cognition. This paper revisits the Rietveld Schröder House from 1924 as a precursor of robotic building. With a built-in capacity for change,
Hugo Mulder
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Material Engagement Theory and urban formation: Notes towards a theoretical synthesis
Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2022 Material Engagement Theory (MET) theorizes artefacts as the emergent outcomes of non-linear processes of formation in which both human and non-human forms of agency are involved.
Frederik Weissenborn
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Material Engagement Shaping Participation of Children on the Autism Spectrum: Embodiment and Subjectivity in Small-Group Learning [PDF]
Europe's Journal of PsychologyThis study investigated the material engagement and their affordances for participation of children on the autism spectrum (AS) in small-group learning. Framed by a methodology called Idea Diary that fosters social interactions in classroom environments,
Juliene Madureira Ferreira +1 more
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Emotional Engagement with Materials: Observation on Material Dialogue Between Potter and Clay
Diseña, 2020 This article examines the role that designers have in the process of designing materials and how, through their direct manipulation and transformation, they can convey emotions and cultural values in the final artifact.
Valentina Rognoli, Elena Rausse
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The Armor of a Researcher: A Critical, Material Engagement with Somatic Experiences
Diseña, 2022 Design researchers and practitioners continuously engage with humans in their work, which can translate into encountering personal stories, challenging questions, and facing expectations.
Janne Mascha Beuthel
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Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach [PDF]
Culture, Medicine and PsychiatryLambros Malafouris, Malafouris Lambros
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An “in vivo” analysis of crafts practices and creativity—Why affordances provide a productive lens
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Scholars are increasingly recognizing that creativity is grounded in the active sensorimotor engagement with the environment and materiality. Affordances—recognizable pointers to action opportunities in the ecology—provide a helpful prism for analyzing ...
Michael Kimmel, Camilla Groth
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The Compositor Tool: Investigating Consumer Experiences in the Circular Economy
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2022 Humanity is living through a crisis that sees our way of life exhausting the resources of the earth and ourselves. The fashion sector shows the negative impacts of conspicuous consumption on our socioenvironmental wellbeing.
Bruna Petreca +4 more
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Recapturing meaning: Toward a new material-based design theory for architecture
Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2022 Architects and students of architecture today are less physically engaged with modeling and drawing representations of proposed things and increasingly rely on digital means and methods that are transforming their embodied interactions with actual ...
Christopher Bardt
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