@article{4485903f7e194336938bee8159f0a354,
title = "Practical lessons for creating affordance-based interventions for sustainable behavior change",
abstract = "Radical collective behavior change is required to develop sustainable forms of urban life. This demands redesign of everyday environments. However, the ways in which our material world shape our behaviors are still understudied and underappreciated. Not much is known about how collective behaviors are facilitated through infrastructural or material interventions. Here, we draw upon 15 years of experience at RAAAF, an Amsterdam-based collective for visual art and architecture, to introduce ten practical lessons for developing strategic design interventions for affordance-based behavior change in urban environments. Affordances are the possibilities for action provided by the environment. Strategic design interventions aim to set collective social change in motion by developing sustainable affordances and dismantling unsustainable behavioral constraints. Strategic design interventions seek to inspire policies and public imagination. Whereas scientific studies aim to describe reality as it is, RAAAF's material interventions help imagine how the shared urban environment could be in the future.",
keywords = "affordance, architecture, behavior change, climate change, design, nudge, practical knowledge, social tipping points, sustainability",
author = "Kaaronen, {Roope O.} and E. Rietveld",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the people at RAAAF, especially Ronald Rietveld and David Habets, for sharing their expertise in their work. We also thank Julian Kiverstein, Jelle Bruineberg, Jasper van den Herik, Ludger van Dijk, Maarten van Westen, Twan Kieboom, and Harry Heft for commenting on earlier versions of this paper, and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful suggestions. R.O.K. received funding from the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI grant, 276-20-019 ). E.R. is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI grant, 276-20-019 ) and the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, 679190 ). Funding Information: We are grateful to the people at RAAAF, especially Ronald Rietveld and David Habets, for sharing their expertise in their work. We also thank Julian Kiverstein, Jelle Bruineberg, Jasper van den Herik, Ludger van Dijk, Maarten van Westen, Twan Kieboom, and Harry Heft for commenting on earlier versions of this paper, and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful suggestions. R.O.K. received funding from the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI grant, 276-20-019). E.R. is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, VIDI grant, 276-20-019) and the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, 679190). Erik Rietveld is a founding partner in RAAAF (Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances). RAAAF was not involved in the funding of this article. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2021",
month = oct,
day = "22",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.013",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "1412--1424",
journal = "One Earth",
issn = "2590-3330",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "10",
}