Adult Designer Monopoly on Creativity

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• Adults (professionals and builders) have monopolized the fun and creativity of designing and constructing environments, grossly cheating children, adults, and communities.claim0.789
  Nicholson's critique of the professionalization of design and construction, arguing that lay participation in environmental creation has been systematically excluded.
• Professional designers and builders monopolize creative play, excluding children and communities from the design process.claim0.785
  Nicholson's critique of how institutional design practice alienates lay participants from creative agency and environmental authorship.
• Adults in the form of professional artists, architects, landscape architects and planners have had all the fun playing with their own materials, concepts and planning-alternatives, and builders have had all the fun building the environments out of real materials; thus all the fun and creativity has been stolen: children and adults and the community have been grossly cheated and the educational-cultural system makes sure that they hold the belief that this is 'right'.claim0.761
  Nicholson's assertion that the design process robs end-users of creative engagement.
• fun and creativity stolen by adultsconcept0.756
  Nicholson's claim that professionals and builders remove loose parts, robbing children and communities of creative engagement.
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.729
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Design alone cannot accomplish this. It needs a change in the way we make it possible for people to control the world around them.claim0.728
  Argues that spatial quality requires a shift in social process, not just architectural design
• Creativityconcept0.727
  The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
• Significant aesthetic properties in an enactor's actions can be attributed to the designer's intentional artifact creation.claim0.717