Technologies, Inbetweenness and Affordances

Categorization of technologies by the order of their inbetweenness is a useful device for parsing complex structures info fundamental parts and understanding the application of a technology. This promises a coherent foundation for explaining how we deploy technologies in design, in particular with respect to the affordances they create. By...

Nested affordance-based intuitive design tool: Affordance interaction matrix

Affordances serve as design cues, facilitating users in effortlessly identifying the intended use of objects. However, due to the phenomenological nature of the affordance concept, its application and understanding in the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain remain uncertain, resulting in limited utilization in design practice. This study...

ICSS: The International Community ‘Space’ Station: Publicness and formation of a resilient and sustainable community in a space habitat

The goal of this thesis is to propose a design for an orbital space station that incubates the future space civilization and is the base for space regulations and governance. A place that is democratizing access to space and resources, and allows for any interested individual to join and contribute to the world at large and their personal...

Introducing Affordances through the carpeting of public spaces: Affordances as a tool for stimulating curiosity and exploration within our built environment

Public spaces are the places where people come together in the physical environment. They are precious as they have in them the possibility of bringing together people with different cultures and backgrounds. In some cases, however these important spots within our cities are not designed to maximize their capacity for human exploration. As seen...

A Meta-Field: The Coexisting Groundscape in Between

How could public spaces tell us about the city? How does public space take part in our thoughts and affect behaviors? What makes the groundscape? What embodies its essence? And what will people perceive when lowering their gazes? I argue the process of making groundscape is not only constructing a horizontal layer of urban tissue but also...

The Curtains: On the Private-Public Street Boundary

Probing into the parameters of a ‘wall’, this project seeks to empower the boundary wall in reactivating street life along the private-public street boundary, where front-yards were originally planned but now missing. In Teusaquillo of Bogota, people have regretfully took ‘walls’ as mere devices to define territories. Yet, there are latent...

Introducing legibility as a bridge between urban design and perception

The graduation project is about finding a way to make legibility applicable in urban design. Information on legibility is converted into (applicable) practical bits of information: patterns. The applicability of the patterns are tested with a design in a context.

Migrated Space Contrasts

Space for possible interaction in Matonge, Bruxelles.

Understanding preferences for the residential environment using Affordance-based theory

The decreasing importance of socio-economic factors in choosing a place to live gives more room to other motivational factors. These can be examined using affordance-based theory (Gibson, 1979), which explores what use the environment has to the user. In a telephone survey, 738 respondents were asked for their preferred residential environment...

Affordance based housing preferences

Affordance and behavior setting: A multi-level ecological perspective in the study of the meaning of habitat

Editorial special issue: House, home and dwelling

The aim of this special issue is to further our understanding of ‘house’, ‘home’ and ‘dwelling’ by presenting five empirical studies that investigate different aspects of these concepts. All three are complex, multi-faceted and multi-layered concepts, whose diverse connotations are often used interchangeably. For example, the word home is used...