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  1. Mar 2025
    1. for - event - Skoll World Forum 2025 - program page - inspiration - new idea - Indyweb dev - curate desilo'd global commons of events - that are topic-mapped in mindplex - link to a global, desilo'd schedule - new idea - use annotation to select events to attend - new Indyweb affordance - hypothesis annotation for program event selection - event program selection - 2025 - April 1 - 4 - Skoll World Forum

      new idea - use annotation to select events to attend - demonstrate first use of this affordance on the annotation of this online event program

      summary - A good resource rich with many ideas relevant to bottom-up, rapid whole system change

  2. Jul 2024
  3. Mar 2023
    1. Legal affordances arise from relations within and between bodies of law at different scales, where questions of definition, jurisdiction and applicability configure the legal space of NAPFs’ strategy and the physical space of operations. We highlight how a focus on legal affordances as comprised of absences, ambiguity and arbitrage allows us to see how NAPFs use legal and spatial scaling to connect the local to the transnational. We also suggest that social activism concerned with property, labor, and public thoroughfare rights can challenge legal affordances. These challenges can then be pushed at different scales where adjudication may be on offer, but are also limited given that NAPFs have considerable resources to spend in fending off legal challenges.

      Interesting - but misses the 'alternative positive construction' of these affordances. The absences and ambiguity can be deployed regeneratively as well as in the form of resistance. This is building in the cracks rather than litigating the ugly new buildings.

    2. NAPFs combine the opportunistic use of bodies of law, the spatial demarcation of the firm's corporate structure, and economic activities occurring in bounded local spaces. These firms do not use bodies of law as external resources, but integrate legal and spatial scaling into their everyday operations. Legal affordances are a privilege supported by a transnational interpretative community of professionals that promotes their widespread recognition through “embedded spaces of social practice” (Faulconbridge, 2007; Harrington and Seabrooke 2020). Legal affordance differs from legal provision, which is a granted right and commonly viewed as fixed and static external resources. As we clarify below, NAPFs use legal affordances to construct what David Harvey (1973, 2006) referred to as relational space that empowers their capacity to exploit other people's assets and avoid regulatory burdens.

      Distinction between legal provision and legal affordance is useful at a general level - although the opportunistic use is not as distinct from legal provision as they say, given that no law is in practice ever really static. But the construction of 'relational space' for extractive purposes is paradoxical and disturbing.

  4. Oct 2021
  5. Sep 2021
  6. Apr 2021
    1. For instance, when you see a door handle, you assume its function is to open a door. When you see a light switch, you assume it can be flicked to turn on a light. When looking at a chair, you know it can be sat in. All of these are affordances. Don Norman refers to affordances as relationships in his book The Design of Everyday Things. He goes on to say that, “when affordances are taken advantage of, the user knows what to do just by looking: no picture, label, or instruction needed.”
  7. Feb 2021
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  9. Apr 2020
    1. affordance 
      • définition originale : elle désigne « toutes les possibilités d'actions sur un objet ». Cette définition s'est ensuite restreinte aux seules possibilités dont l'acteur est conscient ;
      • par la suite le terme a été utilisé en ergonomie de manière encore plus restreinte : pour se référer à la « capacité d’un objet à suggérer sa propre utilisation », par exemple, sans qu'il ne soit nécessaire de lire un mode d'emploi. On parle aussi d'utilisation intuitive (ou du caractère intuitif) d'un objet.

      Source : Wikipedia

  10. Jan 2019