Professional designers and builders monopolize creative play, excluding children and communities from the design process.

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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.claim0.857
  Nicholson's critique of the professionalization of design and construction, arguing that lay participation in environmental creation has been systematically excluded.
• 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'.claim0.805
  Nicholson's assertion that the design process robs end-users of creative engagement.
• Adult Designer Monopoly on Creativityclaim0.785
• Parametric design frameworks promote games whose rules remain constrained within authorial domain; participants subsumed to parameters whose plays perform automatically within program space.claim0.755
  Veloso's critique of contemporary architecture via Schumacher: loss of open-game potential from cybernetic era.
• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.742
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.741
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• In the 20th century there were violent taboos in the architectural community against building anything from C_living.claim0.733
• Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success?question0.731
  Opening rhetorical question that frames the problem of creating complexity.