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dc.contributor.authorKimmel, Michael
dc.contributor.authorGroth, Camilla
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T12:25:12Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T12:25:12Z
dc.date.created2023-09-04T14:25:35Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationKimmel, M., & Groth, C. (2023). An “in vivo” analysis of crafts practices and creativity—Why affordances provide a productive lens. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Artikkel 1127684.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3146963
dc.description.abstractScholars 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 how this happens. Creative practitioners, as they seek aesthetic opportunities or innovation, depend on their sensitivity toward potentialities in their action space. Presently, we apply a high-zoom lens to a crafts process, giving our micro-genetic research design an affordance focus. By investigating one of the authors, a ceramicist and a practitioner-researcher, through her process of making of a vase, we tracked how affordances are responded to, developed, shaped, invited or, where necessary, rejected, as the ceramicist “routes” her creative trajectory. Several insights emerge: (1) The ceramicist's decisions—initially about general directions, then about aesthetic details—unfold while engaging with the clay; they emerge in stepwise fashion, but with a holistic orientation. (2) Choosing among affordances requires parallel sensitivities to object functionality, aesthetics and creativity, as well as technical feasibility; adhering to the proper technical procedure that provides the very basis for creatively relevant affordances to later arise. (3) While the hands and eyes engage with short-lived affordances the ceramicist must keep in view higher-timescale affordances that ensure a good task progression for making a vase, and affordances for the material's overall “workability”. (4) The ceramicist typically relates to momentary affordances in light of expected as well as imagined others, to ensure a coherent end product. (5) Affordances contribute to material creativity in more ways than typically recognized in the literature. They range from serendipitous “finds” to options developed with a large degree of creative autonomy; affordances may also be indirectly invited and practitioners strategically change probability distributions as well as providing an enabling background for generative action. Thus, a crafts practitioner brings forth unconventional affordances through active engagement, using a mix of exploration, strategy, and imaginative potential. Affordance theorists err when stressing the possibility to just “find” creative options or that perceptual acuity is the sole skill.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleAn “in vivo” analysis of crafts practices and creativity—Why affordances provide a productive lensen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2023 Kimmel and Groth.en_US
dc.source.volume14en_US
dc.source.journalFrontiers in Psychologyen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1127684
dc.identifier.cristin2172160
dc.source.articlenumber1127684en_US
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