This episode introduces the concepts of 'affordances', 'disaffordances', and 'dysaffordances'; concepts from design thinking that have a lot to offer the project of reframing the value and importance of recognising and embracing what our bodyminds afford us to do, experience, understand.

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This episode mentions:

A designer's approach: how can autistic adults with learning disabilities be involved in the design process?, By Katie Gaudion

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43099267.pdf

Activist Affordances: how disabled people improvise more habitable worlds

By Arseli Dokumaci

Design Justice: commuity-led practices to build the worlds we need, by Sasha Constranza-Chock

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