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Situating the Embodied Mind in a Landscape of Standing Affordances for Living Without Chairs: Materializing a Philosophical Worldview

Overview of attention for article published in Sports Medicine, March 2016
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Title
Situating the Embodied Mind in a Landscape of Standing Affordances for Living Without Chairs: Materializing a Philosophical Worldview
Published in
Sports Medicine, March 2016
DOI 10.1007/s40279-016-0520-2
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Authors

Erik Rietveld

Abstract

Sitting too much is unhealthy, but a widespread habit in many societies. Realizing behavioral change in this area is hard. Our societies promote being seated via the way its places are structured: they are filled with chairs for example. How can we make healthier environments that invite people to move around more? This article shows how philosophical research in the area of embodied/enactive cognitive science let to a built vision for the office of the future, of 2025. Multidisciplinary studio RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] and visual artist Barbara Visser built this world without chairs, titled The End of Sitting. This large rock-like landscape integrates many affordances for standing. Affordances are the possibilities for action provided by the environment. This landscape of standing affordances allows people to work standing while being supported by the material structure of the environment. This unorthodox working landscape is both an enactive art installation and the materialization of a philosophical worldview that understands people as embodied minds situated in a landscape of affordances. It stimulates reflection on the way built environments can naturally invite more active and healthy behavior.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Researcher 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 10 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 8 12%
Sports and Recreations 6 9%
Philosophy 5 7%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Psychology 5 7%
Other 24 35%
Unknown 16 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 February 2021.
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#2,469,164
of 22,856,968 outputs
Outputs from Sports Medicine
#1,481
of 2,709 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,341
of 326,713 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sports Medicine
#44
of 60 outputs
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