Affordance and Airport Refection

Affordance

Jense, Lanng and Simon realize the importance of affordances, they analyzed Norman expatriation as well as myself. According to Jense, Lanng, Simon (2016:30) “Affordance is thus a concept that enables us to target the performative effects of mobile situations through the relational mobile subject–body–materiality couplings. Yet, as we may have frequently experienced ourselves, “afordances” are not closed-off scripts for behavior: for example, we may, or may not, choose to observe and follow the signal of a red traffic light. They highlight Norman solid definition of affordance as well which I 100% agree “affordance is not a property. An affordance is a relationship”.

Moreover, According to Jense, Lanng, Simon (2016:30) “Thesituational framework, “affordance” becomes a conceptual tool that enables us analytically to highlight the performative effects of materialities in mobile situations without losing sight of how humans also play essential roles in the performance of mobilities. Hence, with our situational approach, we propose not only to advance analytical attention to the design of materialities enabling mobile situations, thereby bringing us analytically closer to physical sites and artifacts.”

Norman for myself is one of the best design thinkers in the world and his book one of the most effective design books defines the relationship between user and product(artifact). His thoughts must be part of any design article in my personal opinion. The designer always starts creating a relation with artifacts. The relationship is based on emotion and affection. Here the artifacts can refer to airports, place inside airports such as Starbucks or waiting room. Or products we use inside the airports. Objects which passages have usage or interaction. Applying technological development in AR/VR, the designer can expand channel to create a better relationship with an artifact. The designer can reflect the emotional history of a passenger in the place. In this case inside the airports thus designers enhance people’s sense of place in airports. Last but not least this doesn’t specifically apply to the airport. However, creating fortified affordance between artifacts and user benefit all places. Furthermore, developing better affordance lead to the solution of mobility problem inside the airport[Going point A to B, physical location change inside the airport].Jensen, Lanng and Simon (2016:32) “Materialities such as transport modes and routes (compositions of physical environments, architectures, and places) represent sensorial landscapes with distinctive emotional and affective dispositions that afford various experiences, and facilitate productive and recreational uses when enrolled in everyday mobility situations”. As a result, the designer can neglect negative emotions such as frustration by avoiding negative emotions designer can enhance people’s sense of place in the airports.

Notion of Affection

According to Ott (2017) effect can be divided into four groups which are feelings, moods, emotions, and passions. In this article, we are going to observe their finding related to design and mobility, and effect.

Ott studied Jameson's thoughts on affection in his article and reiterates Jameson's discovery on the effect such as this, affect is bound to the communicative dimensions of the art. Art creates emotions of arousal atmosphere for the person when they enter the space place. On the other hand, Ott also studied Massumi's research specify affect as a concept neither subject nor object. However, affect is corporal motility, interaction, and the kinetic activity of becoming. Ott points out that, Massumi observe effect as an extensive power that all artifacts or user utilize upon one another in a place.

According to Ott (2017: 4) “Tomkins cites the example of terror as an innate effect. As reported by Tompkins, one can be terrified of losing their job, being diagnosed with cancer, or being publically humiliated. But in none of these circumstances is terror-tied to the drive mechanism, to the “desperate quality of the hunger, thirst, breathing, and sex drives” Tomkins explains affect as stimulated mechanisms and calls sexually aroused driver function.

Tomkins arranged these nine primary motivating mechanisms of effect which consist of three categories: Positive, neutral, and negative. The positive effects are interest, excitement, and enjoyment. The neutral effects are surprised and startling. Lastly, negative effects are distress, anguish, fear, terror, anger, rage, shame, humiliation, disguised, and dis-smell. The key to place(airport) design avoids negative effects and focuses on the positive mechanism of effect.

Ott (2017) defines emotions are triggered by external stimuli related to the interceptive senses (vision, hearing, taste, and smell). These experiences can be either perceived or recalled. As designers, we should focus on manipulating these senses. By doing so the designer will create a correct atmosphere which is the key enhance people’s sense of place.

The airport mainly focused on two types of emotion background emotion and primary or basic emotions. Basic emotions refer to the states of fear, anger, disgust, surprise, sadness, and happiness. After emotions space defines passage re-mood them which are related to the interior design of an airport. More detailed on airports atmosphere, it can be understood differently from a personal history of the passenger. Places can define as re- interactive atmospheres created by affection. Places carry the meaning of culture, values, and tradition. To influence the affection of a person in the airport we can use a tool such as light, sound, and texture.

On the other hand, Anderson (2013) analyzes affect and emotion impact on cultural geography. He examination specifically on hope he gives examples of two events first one it’s an earthquake near miners and how loved one of miner waits to see their close one again. The hope in the air change atmosphere this should be the inspiration for designer and designer have to ask themself, how we carry hope into designing the atmosphere?

On the other hand, he gave example from politics of how one of the most famous recent campaign slogans “yes, we can, yes we can” gave hope aura for the change in places' atmosphere. While Obama was giving his speech. Furthermore, Anderson explains the relation between affect, emotion is not representation is separation. This contradicts Ott definition. However, we need to examine how they have connected to the far side the possibility that a system of signification. This rethinking might bear on a focal point on how specific forms of verbal expression play along and attribute the norm of emotions. By this Anderson give us another finding we should use to enhance people’s sense of place in airports. Additionally, similar to Ott, Anderson (2013) views affection effect a person in place in the norm of shame, shyness, hate, and anger.

Anderson (2013) calls these emotions, a heterogeneous range of phenomena by this definition. He claims that emotions and effects are relative concepts consisting of their relations. With help of dialog and tone (music).

Reference list

Cresswell, Tim. 2015. Place: An Introduction. Chichester: John&Wiley&Sons.

Auge, Marc. 2008. Non-places. Translated by John Howe. London: Verso

Sheller, Mimi, and John, Urry. 2006. “The New Mobilities Paradigm. ” Environment and Planning A 2006, vol. 38, 207–26. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23539640_The_New_Mobilities_Paradigm

Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene, Hannam, Kevin, and Sven, Kesselring. 2016. “Applied mobilities, transitions and opportunities. ” Applied Mobilities Vol.1, Issue.1. 1–9. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23800127.2016.1150562

Jensen, Ole B., Lanng, Ditte, B., and Simon, Wind. 2016. “Mobilities design — towards a research agenda for applied mobilities research. ” Applied Mobilities Vol.1, Issue.1. 26–42. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23800127.2016.1147782

Urry, Elliott, Radford, and Pitt. “Globalisations Utopia? On Airport Atmospherics.” Emotion, Space and Society 19 (2016): 13–20. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755458615300190?via%3Dihub

Ott, Brian L. 2017. “Affect.” Critical/Cultural Studies Online Publication, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.56

Anderson, Ben. 2013. “Affect and Emotion.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography, Chapter 37. New York: John&Wiley&Son

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