A good example of this (not exactly what I’m suggesting, just to explain further) is gardening, cooking and eating. The garden is a space where potential and energy is captured and contained – in, for example, a green pepper. I’ve made the bed, and planted the plant, which, from my work and from the sun, soil, and environment with which I have interacted (and actually, am one part of), creates food. A green pepper could be considered an artifact, and the meaning of the artifact is in what I have done to create it, and what its potential is for further action. I take the green pepper into the kitchen, which is a space designed for more making and doing. There are things there – tools and other ingredients (which may also be things that I have made – like a rich broth, for example). The potatoes are there, the spoons and forks and knives are there, the stove is there. And maybe I make a soup with the green pepper and other ingredients (artifacts). The soup is not meaningful in and of itself – the meaning, again, is in what has occurred (I cooked it, ideally in collaboration with others),and its potential use – we’re going to eat (consume) it. And, since eating is really, in its most healthy form, a social activity (we “share a meal”), there are other people who sit down to the meal, and consume it together, and add additional meaning to the event, which becomes, in its own way, a small celebration of all that we’ve done up to that point, to create that activity (and someone takes a picture of us all sitting at the table – another artifact). This metaphor has all of the attributes I need – making, doing, sharing, consuming, digesting, being. And another very important attribute – pleasure.