“Many designers today are restoring an environmental perspective to usability studies, mining the history of affordances itself for new paradigms that might check the behaviorist and consumerist tendencies of their profession. “Environmental” carries here both its popular sense (“The Environment,” as if there were such a thing), while also referring to the place of an object (such as a joint stool) or a practice (such as theater) in a set of nested and overlapping systems that might include urban, agrarian, monetary, climactic, craft-based, and informational networks. (8)
(8) A journal like Design Ecologies (published by Eniatype, a group of architects based in London) looks at “the complex relationship between human activity and the environment,” examining “the totality or pattern of linkages between drawing and environment” (http://www.eniatype.com/index.php?/about-this-site/).
”
