Activity U (X): Projecting, Projectivity, and Cultural Projection

The Concept of “Projectivity” is inspired by Ecological Psychologist James J. Gibson’s Affordance Theory and Andy Blunden’s Project-oriented Activity Theory.

Bottleman in Retreat (Oliver Ding, 2017)

This article develops a new concept called “Projectivity” and uses it as a foundation of Cultural Projection Analysis which is a module of the Platform-for-Development framework.

The Concept of “Projectivity” is inspired by Ecological Psychologist James J. Gibson’s Affordance Theory and Andy Blunden’s Project-oriented Activity Theory. The concept of Projectivity can be considered as a new idea for the Project-oriented Activity Theory and other Project-oriented approaches.

The last part discusses Lev Vygotsky’s “ecological mind” ideas and the possible connection between Activity Theory and Ecological Psychology.

Contents

Part 1: The Concept of “Projectivity”

1.1 Affordance
1.2 Supportance
1.3 Projectivity
1.4 Sense-makers

Part 2: Primary Projectivity

2.1 Diagram
2.2 Events

Part 3: Secondary Projectivity