A Personal Introduction

Abstract

In the following short introduction, I describe my first encounter with affordance as an architect migrating into cognitive neuroscience and how my understanding of it has shaped my thoughts as an architect and research questions as a researcher. Through a personal journey, this introduction covers an interpretation of the relationship between affordances and information through optic arrays—a topic that divides researchers. It further arranges an extension from ecological psychology into enactivism and essentially to neuroscience. It also briefly introduces mobile brain/body imaging and its importance in understanding human capacities through the monitoring of the brain, body, and environment, which I found valuable. By using my own journey, interrelating architecture, philosophy, and neuroscience, I hope to communicate the interdisciplinary potential and value of affordances and how it continues to support and guide, at least, my thoughts. Beware that the following is my interpretation of Gibson’s work and may conflict with other interpretations.