Some thoughts about experimenting with affordances and behavior chains:
- Loosely playing with the idea of going from affordances to behavior chains. Exploring several possible affordances can lead to a the emergence of a behavior chain, which can then be taken into the “real world.”
- The square, pole, and cone are my version of affordances, and it was fun to find a different way to use them than just simply going around.
- Siri was low energy, so I tried shoulder-in around the square instead of just walking or trying to go faster.
- You can reverse engineer a behavior chain (cone, jump, square to get the horse to come around the square, over the jump, and stop at the cone), or look at it non-linearly (those things taught separately then combined, which is how I happened to do it).
- Just try something - make up an exercise on the fly from props (square, jump, cone).
- Try other things - do something else with the same setup (shoulder-in, jump, cone).
- It’s a little bit like Legos - you have the components, and from that you put things together.
- I would never do this one at speed, but it’s an interesting thing to try at “slow.”
- It challenges a few different axes of movement in succession, as well as the horse’s desire to be in the moment and respond to each request rather than assuming what’s next.
