The Affordances Of Failure is a project developed by DodoLab for the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery’s new Artist in Social Media Residency program. For a week DodoLab took over the Art Gallery’s twitter feed to question, along with students, faculty and staff, the possibilities that exist within failure. Affordances are perceived possibilities for action, the qualities of an object that show how it can be used. A button affords pushing and a chair affords sitting or perhaps standing, while brightly colored, bite-sized berries afford eating. Affordances exist in the relationship between an object or environment and an organism, both contributing to the existence of the action possibility. A chair, for example, affords sitting to most human bodies but not to a horse or an insect. In this project, DodoLab stretches the idea of affordance to the condition of failure. While not strictly a material object or environment, DodoLab wonders what possibilities emerge in a state of failure? Could it be that failing opens up new opportunities for action to us? If so, then what limits emerge when we feel unable risk the possibility of failure? And, what barriers do our ideas about failure impose on ourselves and on others? What might we be missing if we can’t fail?