The research team I composed was of excellent quality. We have published in several top journals and realized exhibitions with media attention worldwide. The team includes researchers of all levels. We have been able to publish in the leading journals in the relevant fields: e.g. top philosophy journal Synthese (several times), Philosophical Studies, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, as well as in TiCS and The Architectural Review. We have been awarded the European Prize of Architecture (Philippe Rotthier) together with my collaborators at RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon. Our Synthese article “The anticipating brain is not a scientist” was the second most downloaded paper of that journal in 2016-2021. We have established collaborations with some of the most influential researchers in the field such as Karl Friston and Tony Chemero, which has led to important publications. We have developed the Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF) further in a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition An architect and postdoctoral researcher have been successfully embedded at the visual art & architecture practice RAAAF to investigate affordances for ‘higher’ cognition, which has led to a new process-based account affordances and skilled intentionality.
Public lectures, newspaper interviews and television items aimed at broad audiences outside the academic sphere allowed us to disseminate the project’s results to the wider public. Our affordance-based work in architecture and visual art (together with RAAAF) has attracted international attention and resulted in several new artworks (including Breaking Habits, Deltawerk //, Hidden Worlds, Still Life, Luftschloss, Black Water). This work featured on popular websites like Dezeen, Designboom, and ArchDaily as well as in top publications for the architecture field like The Architectural Review and l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Deltawerk // and Black Water were listed as best visual art internationally by Dutch national newspaper NRC in 2018 and 2021 respectively. The esteemed German weekly newspaper Die Zeit published an article about the RAAAF artwork Breaking Habits, which served as the setting for our embedded research (subproject 2). Canal+ made a television special on our proposal and experiments for the office of the future. Various Dutch national newspapers published interviews with us on our work at the crossroads of architecture, visual art and philosophy. Well-attended public lectures and/or seminars were delivered at renowned art academies, museums and other institutions such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Art Academie, Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, and Garage Museum for Contempory Art in Moscow. We were invite to launch a philosophy book in the form of an artwork (artists book) together with an exhibition at the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences. This book, titled The Landscape of Affordances, has been selected for the Best Dutch Book Designs exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Black Water has been nominated for Amsterdam Art Prize 2021, which generated a lot of media attention for the project as well.
