@article{ec244e28fdb04c349510e5e4da2febba,
title = "Change-Ability for a World in Flux",
abstract = "This article aims to sketch a new integrative perspective on what I call change-ability. I define change-ability as skilled ways of coordinating with a rapidly changing world. Many urgent societal challenges – from climate change to obesity, from the mass extinction of species to fraying social cohesion – require people to collectively change everyday patterns of behaviour they take for granted. The key insight I start from is that to durably change undesirable patterns of behaviour, we could start by changing the affordances the environment offers – the possibilities for action offered to us by the living environment. The aim of this article is to sketch an integrative conceptual framework for understanding change-ability in terms in terms of a dynamical {\textquoteleft}brain ↔ body ↔ community ↔ landscape of affordances{\textquoteright} system. This Change-Ability Conceptual Framework starts from the idea that individuals and communities are situated in the same rich landscape of affordances and suggests that making communities more change-able entails transforming the material {\textquoteleft}grooves{\textquoteright} that have formed in this landscape of affordances.",
keywords = "Change-Ability Conceptual Framework, Change-ability, RAAAF, affordances, societal challenges, sociomaterial dynamics",
author = "Erik Rietveld",
note = "Funding Information: The roots of this Change-Ability project lay at the expertise on change-ability that my brother Ronald Rietveld and our team at RAAAF have developed over the last 15 years, which is why would like to thank them here. Other people without whom this Change-Ability project would not have been possible are Julian Kiverstein, the Skilled Intentionality team members at the University of Amsterdam/AMC and our collaborators, as well as the many colleagues and friends who gave feedback on my draft descriptions of the Chang-Ability project. Many, many thanks to all of you! I am grateful for all the support by Peter-Paul Verbeek and Ciano Aydin as Socrates Professor at the University of Twente and for the VICI-funding by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Funding Information: The roots of this Change-Ability project lay at the expertise on change-ability that my brother Ronald Rietveld and our team at RAAAF have developed over the last 15 years, which is why would like to thank them here. Other people without whom this Change-Ability project would not have been possible are Julian Kiverstein, the Skilled Intentionality team members at the University of Amsterdam/AMC and our collaborators, as well as the many colleagues and friends who gave feedback on my draft descriptions of the Chang-Ability project. Many, many thanks to all of you! I am grateful for all the support by Peter-Paul Verbeek and Ciano Aydin as Socrates Professor at the University of Twente and for the VICI-funding by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO VICI). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2022.",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123221133869",
language = "English",
volume = "30",
pages = "613--623",
journal = "Adaptive Behavior",
issn = "1059-7123",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "6",
}