This week’s topic is affordances. According to Hagedorn (2000), affordance is anything which the environment can offer the individual which is pertinent to the role challenge and can facilitate role competence. I will write about affordances in the context of making pizzas with my flatmates.
Tonight I made home-made pizzas for dinner with my flatmates. We all came together in our small kitchen and each prepared our own pizza. With all of us working in such a small space we had to think about the environment and where we could each have our own work space. I stacked the dishes tidily so I had more space and the other two worked on the other benches. We worked together by each preparing the toppings for the pizzas. I chopped up the mushrooms and tomatoes, while my other flatmates prepared the capsicum, cheese, spinach, and turned the oven on. We had to look out for each other and communicate with each other about who was using what, where things were, who wanted what ingredient etc. We did this really well and made our pizzas really quickly and had fun doing it. We also have a small oven so we had to be patient when waiting to put our own pizza in to cook. I think we communicate really well when we’re cooking together because we’re such good friends and we have a mutual respect for each other’s needs and wants. We express care for each other by preparing things for each other, and helping the other out – I had to help cut the pizzas because one of the others found it difficult. There’s an overall sense of equality among us, and we each have the power to choose what we want for dinner during the week, and tonight, what toppings to have on the pizza. There’s no arguing or disagreements, just a sense of togetherness and caring.
Tonight I made home-made pizzas for dinner with my flatmates. We all came together in our small kitchen and each prepared our own pizza. With all of us working in such a small space we had to think about the environment and where we could each have our own work space. I stacked the dishes tidily so I had more space and the other two worked on the other benches. We worked together by each preparing the toppings for the pizzas. I chopped up the mushrooms and tomatoes, while my other flatmates prepared the capsicum, cheese, spinach, and turned the oven on. We had to look out for each other and communicate with each other about who was using what, where things were, who wanted what ingredient etc. We did this really well and made our pizzas really quickly and had fun doing it. We also have a small oven so we had to be patient when waiting to put our own pizza in to cook. I think we communicate really well when we’re cooking together because we’re such good friends and we have a mutual respect for each other’s needs and wants. We express care for each other by preparing things for each other, and helping the other out – I had to help cut the pizzas because one of the others found it difficult. There’s an overall sense of equality among us, and we each have the power to choose what we want for dinner during the week, and tonight, what toppings to have on the pizza. There’s no arguing or disagreements, just a sense of togetherness and caring.
References
Hagedorn, R. (2000). Tools for practice in occupational therapy: A structures approach to core skills and processes. London: Churchill Livingstone
Hey Hannah I really like your blog! It sounds like you make sone really yummy food! you have some lucky flatmates!
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