In this article, Mats Haraldsen and Sarah Bro Trasmundi investigate how a process of creative and imaginative narration emerges from the interaction of an expert comic writer and his environment (pen, screen, desk, etc). Their argument is based on a cognitive video-ethnographic investigation of Norwegian comic author, Anders Kvammen. From the perspective of ecological psychology, they present a detailed analysis of a single, concrete example from the video material, supported by broader material and interviews, using Gibson’s theory of affordances and the methodology of Cognitive Event Analysis to argue that higher-level cognitive processes such as imaginative narration can be understood as an embodied and ecological form of affordance navigation.
If you wish to participate in this Reading Group, please contact Stefka G. Eriksen or Mats Haraldsen.