Why the concept of affordances is so important to our understanding of becoming skilful. A conversation with Dr Andrew Wilson
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of affordances in understanding skill development through a conversation with Dr Andrew Wilson.
This is a conversation that I have been looking forward to for a long time. We covered a lot of ground especially defining affordances and linking affordances not only to individual movement, but to multi organism and multi species interactions. On the way we connected affordance perception, calibration, flow, and many other importance concepts. Andrew Wilson, an ecological psychologist at Leeds Beckett University, discusses the concept of affordances, emphasising their central role in skil...
People in this episode
Host: Marianne Davies
Guest: Dr Andrew Wilson
Topics covered
- affordances
- ecological psychology
- movement
- multi-organism interactions
- skill development
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Leeds Beckett University
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