TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovative action as skilled affordance-responsiveness: An embodied-mind approach
AU - Yakhlef, Ali
AU - Rietveld, Erik
N1 - Funding Information: This research was financially supported by an ERC Starting Grant (number 679190, EU Horizon 2020) for Erik Rietveld's project AFFORDS-HIGHER. The authors would like to thank Jelle Bruineberg, Julian Kiverstein and Ludger van Dijk for their feedback on an earlier version of this paper. The authors also acknowledge the help of research assistant Twan Kieboom in editing and proofreading the paper. Funding Information: This research was financially supported by an ERC Starting Grant (number 679190, EU Horizon 2020) for Erik Rietveld's project AFFORDS‐HIGHER. The authors would like to thank Jelle Bruineberg, Julian Kiverstein and Ludger van Dijk for their feedback on an earlier version of this paper. The authors also acknowledge the help of research assistant Twan Kieboom in editing and proofreading the paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - Innovative action has often been regarded as the preserve of the deliberate mind and the outcome of individual explicit thought processes. In this regard, the material context within which innovative action occurs is considered as a passive container or at best a modifier of innovative action. Although recent studies have witnessed an interest in relating innovation to issues of embodiment, space and materiality, mainstream research remains largely grounded in a cognitivist, psychological idiom. The present paper takes an embodied-mind perspective and focuses on the individual–environment system as a whole to suggest that innovative action emerges from an agent's skilful responses to unconventional environmental affordances (or action possibilities). Rather than viewing innovation as occurring within material contexts, we offer a new understanding of context as a rich landscape of affordances that is partly constitutive of innovation. The paper concludes with discussions of the proposed approach, its implications for studying innovative action and suggestions for further enquiry.
AB - Innovative action has often been regarded as the preserve of the deliberate mind and the outcome of individual explicit thought processes. In this regard, the material context within which innovative action occurs is considered as a passive container or at best a modifier of innovative action. Although recent studies have witnessed an interest in relating innovation to issues of embodiment, space and materiality, mainstream research remains largely grounded in a cognitivist, psychological idiom. The present paper takes an embodied-mind perspective and focuses on the individual–environment system as a whole to suggest that innovative action emerges from an agent's skilful responses to unconventional environmental affordances (or action possibilities). Rather than viewing innovation as occurring within material contexts, we offer a new understanding of context as a rich landscape of affordances that is partly constitutive of innovation. The paper concludes with discussions of the proposed approach, its implications for studying innovative action and suggestions for further enquiry.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12345
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12345
M3 - Article
SN - 0963-1690
VL - 29
SP - 99
EP - 111
JO - Creativity and Innovation Management
JF - Creativity and Innovation Management
IS - 1
ER -