All Publications

This is an up-to-date list of all my publications. Directly below you can also find a selection of some key publications.

Key Publications

Rietveld, E. (2022). Change-Ability for a World in Flux. Adaptive Behavior.
doi: 10.1177/10597123221133869

Rietveld, E. & Kiverstein, J. (2022). Reflections on the genre of philosophical art installations. Adaptive Behavior. doi: 10.1177/1059712321989428

Rietveld, E. (2022). The affordances of art for making technologies. Adaptive Behavior. doi: 10.1177/10597123221132898

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Skilled we-intentionality: Situating joint action in the living environment. Open Research Europe. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.13411.2

Kaaronen, R. O. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Practical lessons for creating affordance-based interventions for sustainable behavior change. One Earth.
doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.013

Bruineberg, J., Seifert, L., Rietveld, E. & Kiverstein, J. (2021). Metastable attunement and real life skilled behaviour. Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03355-6

Kiverstein, J., Rietveld, E., & Denys, D. (2021). World Wide Open. Aeon.

Van Dijk, L. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Situated Talking. Language Sciences 87,
101389. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101389.

Van den Herik, J.C. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Reflective Situated Normativity. Philosophical Studies, doi: 10.1007/s11098-021-01605-4

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2020). The Landscape of Affordances. Amsterdam: Black Paper Press

Van Dijk, L., & Rietveld, E. (2020). Situated Imagination. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. doi.org/10.1007/s11097-020-09701-2

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2020). Scaling-up skilled intentionality to linguistic thought. Synthese. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02540-3

Kiverstein, J., Rietveld, E., Slagter, H. A., & Denys, D. (2019). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Pathology of Self-Confidence? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.005

Bruineberg, J., and Rietveld, E. (2019). What’s Inside Your Head Once You’ve Figured Out What Your Head is Inside Of. Ecological Psychology 31(3), 198-217. doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2019.1615204

Van Dijk, L, and Rietveld, E. (2018). Situated Anticipation. Synthese. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02013-8

Bruineberg, J., Chemero, A., and Rietveld, E. (2018). General Ecological Information supports engagement with affordances for ‘higher’ cognition. Synthese 196(12), 5231–5251. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1716-9

Bruineberg, J., Rietveld, E., Parr, T., Van Maanen, L., and Friston, K.J. (2018). Free-energy minimization in joint agent-environment systems: a niche construction perspective. Journal of Theoretical Biology 455, 161-178. doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.07.002

Rietveld, E., Denys, D., and Van Westen, M. (2018). Ecological-Enactive Cognition as Engaging with a Field of Relevant Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF). In A. Newen, L. L. de Bruin and S. Gallagher (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 41-70. doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198735410.013.3

Kiverstein, J., Miller, M. & Rietveld, E. (2017). The feeling of grip: novelty, error dynamics, and the predictive brain. Synthese 196, 2847–2869. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1583-9

Van Dijk, L., and Rietveld, E. (2017). Foregrounding sociomaterial practice in our understanding of affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework. Frontiers in Psychology 7: 1969. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01969

Bruineberg, J., Kiverstein, J., and Rietveld, E. (2016). The anticipating brain is not a scientist: The free-energy principle from an ecological-enactive perspective. Synthese 195(6), 2417-2444. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1239-1

Rietveld, E., and Kiverstein, J. (2014). A rich landscape of affordances. Ecological Psychology 26(4), 325-352. doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2014.958035

Bruineberg, J., and Rietveld, E. (2014). Self-organisation, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8(599), 1-14. doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00599

Rietveld, E. (2008a). Situated normativity: The normative aspect of embodied cognition in unreflective action. Mind 117(468), 973-1001. doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzn050

All publications

Staničić, A. & Jelić, A. (2022). Designing affordances of future heritage: a conversation with Ronald and Erik Rietveld of RAAAF. The Journal of Architecture, 27:4, 594-614. doi: 10.1080/13602365.2022.2132770

Rietveld, E. (2022). Change-Ability for a World in Flux. Adaptive Behavior.
doi: 10.1177/10597123221133869

Rietveld, E. & Kiverstein, J. (2022). Reflections on the genre of philosophical artinstallations. Adaptive Behavior. doi: 10.1177/1059712321989428

Rietveld, E. (2022). The affordances of art for making technologies. Adaptive Behavior. doi: 10.1177/10597123221132898

Novak, A., Van Lierop, G., & Rietveld, E. (2022). Engaging with art skillfully. First stepstowards an ecological-enactive account ofthe experience of art. Adaptive Behavior. doi: 10.1177/10597123221133

Kolvoort, I. & Rietveld, E. (2022). Affordances for Situating the Embodied Mind in Sociocultural Practice. In: Djebbara, Z. (eds) Affordances in Everyday Life. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08629-8_2

Martens, J., Rietveld, R., & Rietveld, E. (2022). A conversation on collaborative embodied engagement in making art and architecture: Going beyond the divide between ‘lower’ and ‘higher’ cognition. In K. Bicknell & J. Sutton (Eds.) Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (pp. 53–68). London, Methuen Drama.

Miller, M., Kiverstein, J., & Rietveld, E. (2021). The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being. Emotion Review. 2022;14(1):15-30. doi:10.1177/17540739211063851

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Skilled we-intentionality: Situating joint action in the living environment. Open Research Europe. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.13411.2

Kaaronen, R. O. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Practical lessons for creating affordance-based interventions for sustainable behavior change. One Earth. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.013

Bruineberg, J., Seifert, L., Rietveld, E. & Kiverstein, J. (2021). Metastable attunement and real life skilled behaviour. Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-021-03355-6

Kiverstein, J., Rietveld, E., & Denys, D. (2021). World Wide Open. Aeon.

Van Dijk, L. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Situated Talking. Language Sciences 87,
101389. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101389.

Van den Herik, J.C. & Rietveld, E. (2021). Reflective Situated Normativity. Philosophical Studies, doi: 10.1007/s11098-021-01605-4

Van Westen, M., Rietveld, E., Van Hout, A., & Denys, D. (2021). Deep brain stimulation is no ON/OFF-switch’: an ethnography of clinical expertise in psychiatric practice. Phenomology and the Cognitive Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s11097-021-09732-3

Toro, J., Kiverstein, J., & Rietveld, E. (2020). The Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability: Why disability does not entail pathological embodiment. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01162

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2020). The Landscape of Affordances. Amsterdam: Black Paper Press.

Rietveld, E., & Martens, J. (2020). Anticipatie, affordances en het brein bij vaardig handelen. In Denys, D. & Meynen G. (eds). Het tweede handboek psychiatrie en filosofie. Amsterdam: Boom uitgevers, pp. 123-138.

Van Dijk, L., & Rietveld, E. (2020). Situated Imagination. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. doi.org/10.1007/s11097-020-09701-2

Van Westen, M., Rietveld, E., Bergfeld, I.O., de Koning, P., Vullink, N., Ooms, P., Graat, I., Liebrand, L., van den Munckhof, P., Schuurman, R. and Denys, D. (2020), Optimizing Deep Brain Stimulation Parameters in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. doi.org/10.1111/ner.13243

Rietveld, E. and Martens, J. (2020). Architecture and Ecological Psychology: RAAAF’s Explorations of Affordances. In D. van den Heuvel, J. Martens, and V. Muñoz Sanz (eds.) Habitat: Ecological Thinkinig in Architecture. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2020). Skill-based engagement with a rich landscape of affordances as an alternative to thinking through other minds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900284X

Kiverstein, J., Miller, M. & Rietveld, E. (2020). How mood tunes prediction: A neurophenomenological account of mood and its disturbance in major depression. Neuroscience of Consciousness. doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa003

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2020). Scaling-up skilled intentionality to linguistic thought. Synthese. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02540-3

Miller, M., Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2020). Embodying addiction: A predictive processing account. Brain and Cognition 138: 105495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.105495

Van Westen, M., Rietveld, E., and Denys, D. (2019), Effective Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Requires Clinical Expertise. Front. Psychol. 10:2294. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02294

Bruineberg, J. & Rietveld, E. (2019) What’s Inside Your Head Once You’ve Figured Out What Your Head is Inside Of. Ecological Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2019.1615204

Yakhlef, A., & Rietveld, E. (2019). Innovative action as skilled affordance-responsiveness: An embodied-mind approach. Creativity and Innovation Management Journal. doi.org/10.1111/caim.12345

Rietveld, E. (2019) The Affordances of Art for Making Technologies. Inaugural lecture at the University of Twente, Socrates Chair, April 18 2019.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2019), Een landschap voor vertrouwde vreemden. In Akademie van Kunsten, Gedeelde Ruimte: Over het Publieke Domein van Morgen. Amsterdam: KNAW, pp. 32-45.

Kiverstein, J., Rietveld, E., Slagter, H. A., & Denys, D. (2019). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Pathology of Self-Confidence? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.005

Kiverstein, J., van Dijk, L., & Rietveld, E. (2019). The field and landscape of affordances: Koffka’s two environments revisited. Synthese, 1-18. doi:10.1007/s11229-019-02123-x

Bruineberg, J., Chemero, A., and Rietveld, E. (2018). General Ecological Information supports engagement with affordances for ‘higher’ cognition. Synthese 196(12), 5231–5251. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1716-9

Van Dijk, L. & Rietveld, E. (2018) Situated Anticipation. Synthese. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02013-8

Bruineberg, J., Rietveld, E., Parr, T., Van Maanen, L. & Friston, K.J. (2018) Free-energy minimization in joint agent-environment systems: A niche construction perspective Journal of Theoretical Biology. doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.07.002

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2018) Reconceiving representation-hungry cognition: An ecological enactive proposal Adaptive Behavior, doi: 10.1177/1059712318772778

Rietveld, E., Denys, D. & Van Westen, M. (2018) Ecological-Enactive Cognition as Engaging with a Field of Relevant Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF), in Newman et al (eds.) Oxford Handbook for Embodied Cognitive Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2018) Affordances and Architecture, Superhumanity. London: E-flux Architecture.

Rietveld, E., Rietveld, R. & Martens, J. (2017) Trusted strangers: social affordances for social cohesion Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s11097-017-9554-7

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2017) Hardcore Heritage: Imagination for Preservation Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01995

Kiverstein, J., Miller, M. & Rietveld, E. (2017) The feeling of grip: novelty, error dynamics, and the predictive brain. Synthese doi: 10.1007/s11229-017-1583-9

De Haan, S., Rietveld, E., Stokhof, M. & Denys, D. (2017) Becoming more oneself? Changes in personality following DBS treatment for psychiatric disorders: Experiences of OCD patients and general considerations PLoS ONE 12(4). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175748

Kiverstein, J., Rietveld, E. & Denys, D. (2017) Could closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation enhance a person’s feeling of being free? AJoB, American Journal of Bioethics 8(2), pp. 86–87

Van Dijk, L. & Rietveld, E. (2017) Foregrounding Sociomaterial Practice in Our Understanding of Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework. Frontiers in Psychology (vol. 7: 1969) doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01969

Rietveld, R., Rietveld, E. & Habets, D. (2017). The tide of history — a tribute to a delta experiments. The Architectural Review 1442, pp. 86-89.

Bruineberg, J., Kiverstein, J.D. & Rietveld, E. (2016) The anticipating brain is not a scientist: The free-energy principle from an ecological-enactive perspective. Synthese. doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1239-1

Rietveld, E. (2016) Situating the embodied mind in landscape of standing affordances for living without chairs: Materializing a philosophical worldview. Journal of Sports Medicine. doi: 1007/s40279-016-0520-2

Rietveld, E. & Brouwers, A.A. (2016) Optimal grip on affordances in architectural design practices: An ethnography. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s11097-016-9475-x

De Haan, S., Rietveld, E., Stokhof, M. & Denys, D. (2015) Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation on the lived experience of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients: In-depth interviews with 18 patients. PLoS ONE 10(8), pp. 1-29. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135524.

Rietveld, E., Rietveld, R., Mackic, A., Van Waalwijk van Doorn, E., Bervoets, B. (2015), The End of Sitting, Harvard Design Magazine 40, pp. 180-181.

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2015) The Primacy of Skilled Intentionality: On Hutto & Satne’s The Natural Origins of Content. Philosophia 43 (3). (PDF)

Van Westen, M., Rietveld, E., Figee, M. & Denys, D. (2015) Clinical outcome and mechanisms of deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports (2), pp. 41-48.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E., Bey, J., Mackic, A., Visser, B., Van de Wiel, E., Zoeteman, M. (2014), Vacancy Studies: Experiments and Strategic Interventions in Architecture. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers.

Rietveld, E. & Kiverstein, J. (2014) A rich landscape of affordances. Ecological Psychology 26 (4), pp. 325-352.

Bruineberg, J. & Rietveld, E. (2014) Self-organization, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (599), pp. 1-14.

De Haan, S., Rietveld, E. & Denys, D. (2014) Stimulating good practice: What an EEC approach could actually mean for DBS practice. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 5 (4), pp. 46-48.

Frijda, N., Ridderinkhof, K.R., & Rietveld, E. (2014) Impulsive Action: Emotional Impulses and their control. Frontiers in Psychology 5 (518), pp. 1-9.

Rietveld, R., Rietveld, E., Zoeteman, M. & Mackic, A. (eds.) (2014), Vacancy Studies: Experiments & Strategic Interventions in Architecture. Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers.

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld R. (2014) Introduction to Vacancy Studies. In Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (eds.) Vacancy Studies: Experiments & Strategic Interventions in Architecture. Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, pp. 13-23.

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld R. (2014) The potential for innovation offered by vacancy. In Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (eds.) Vacancy Studies: Experiments & Strategic Interventions in Architecture. Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, pp. 29-50.

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld R. (2014) The Dutch Atlas of Vacancy. In Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (eds.) Vacancy Studies: Experiments & Strategic Interventions in Architecture. Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, pp. 51-78.

Rietveld, E., Rietveld R. & Mackic, A. (2014) Strategic interventions as a design approach. In Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (eds.) Vacancy Studies: Experiments & Strategic Interventions in Architecture. Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, pp. 79-116.

De Haan, S., Rietveld, E., Stokhof, M., & Denys, D. (2013). The phenomenology of deep brain stimulation-induced changes in OCD: an enactive affordance-based model. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 (653), pp. 1-14.

Rietveld, E., De Haan, S. & Denys, D (2013), Social affordances in context: What is it that we are bodily responsive to? Invited commentary article on Leo Schilbach et al. BBS, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, p. 436.

Rietveld, E. (2013), Affordances & unreflective freedom, in Moran, D. & Thybo Jensen, R. (eds.) Embodied Subjectivity. New-York: Springer.

Rietveld, E. (2013), Introduction to ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’ArchiNed, June 9, 2013.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2013), Landscape Architecture’s Core: Featured Practice Rietveld Landscape, Harvard Design Magazine 36.

De Haan, S, Rietveld, E. & Denys, D. (2013), Being free by losing control: What Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can tell us about free will. In Glannon, W. (ed.) Neuroscientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Free Will. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

De Haan, S., Rietveld, E. & Denys, D. (forthcoming), On the nature of obsessions and compulsions, in Baldwin, D.S. & Leonard, B.E. (eds.) Trends in Pharmacopsychiatry: Anxiety Disorders. To be published by Karger.

Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2012), Dealing with context through action-oriented predictive processingFrontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 3 (421), pp. 1-2.

Rietveld, E. (2012), Bodily intentionality and social affordances in context, in Paglieri, F. (ed.) Consciousness in Interaction. The Role of the Natural and Social Context in Shaping Consciousness. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, pp. 207-226.

Rietveld, E. (2012), Context-switching and responsiveness to real relevance, in Kiverstein, J. & Wheeler, M. (eds.) Heidegger and Cognitive Science: New Directions in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. Basingtoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 105-135.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2012) The Web – Radio Kootwijk, de Architect. pp. 17.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2012), Designing with vacancy, Volume 33, pp. 29-33.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2012), Vacant NL for top sectorsS+RO (4), pp. 10-11.

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2011), Designing spontaneous interactions, OASE – Architecture Journal 85, pp. 33-41.

Rietveld, E. (2011), Bekwaam handelen zonder reflectie, in Denys, D & Meynen, G. (eds), Handboek Psychiatrie en Filosofie. Utrecht: De Tijdstroom, pp. 161-173.

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2011), Designing spontaneous interactions, OASE 85, pp. 33-41.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2011), Vacant NL, Where architecture meets ideas, in Achten, A., Van der Markt, H. And De Rijk, T. (eds.) Dutch Design Yearbook 2011, Rotterdam: NAI, pp. 182-183.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2011), There’s a new master in townStudio 1, Architecture and Urbanism Magazine, pp. 84-93.

Rietveld, E. (2010), McDowell and Dreyfus on unreflective action. Inquiry 53 (2), pp. 183-207.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2010)  Dutch Atlas of Vacancy. With graphic design by Studio Joost Grootens. Rotterdam: NAI.

Rietveld, E. (2010), Alledaags handelen zonder na te denken, ANTW 102 (4), pp. 245-253.

Klaassen, P., Rietveld, E. & Topal, J. (2010), Inviting complementary perspectives on situated normativity in everyday life. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9 (1), pp. 53-73.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2010), Nieuw Amsterdams Park | Vertrouwde subculturende Architect 41 (4), p. 18.

Rietveld, R., Rietveld, E. & Erick de Lyon (2010), Temporarily open as strategy, in Sloterdijk, P. & Hemel, Z. Free State of Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Physical Planning Department, City of Amsterdam, pp. 106-109.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2009), A call for strategic interventions, in Bouman, O., Abhelakh, A., Dings, M. & Zoeteman, M. (eds.) Architecture of Consequence: Dutch Designs on the Future, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, pp. 114-117

Rietveld, E. & Rietveld, R. (2009), Alledaags handelen: Filosofie en Landschapsarchitectuur, Tijdschrift voor Humanistiek 10 (37), pp. 56-64.

Rietveld, R. & Rietveld, E. (2009), Office Rietveld Landscape, PaiseaDos, Landscape Architecture Review 1, pp. 130-135.

Rietveld, E. (2008), Situated normativity: The normative aspect of embodied cognition in unreflective action. Mind 117 (468), pp. 973-1001. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzn050

Rietveld, E. (2008), The skillful body as a concernful system of possible actions: Phenomena and neurodynamics. Theory & Psychology 18 (3), pp. 341-363.

Rietveld, E. (2008), Unreflective Action. A Philosophical Contribution to Integrative Neuroscience. University of Amsterdam Dissertation. Amsterdam: ILLC-Dissertation Series DS-2008-05.