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concept:all-the-fun-and-creativity-have-been-stolen-children-and-adults-and-the-community-have-been-grossly-cheatedAll the fun and creativity have been stolen: children and adults and the community have been grossly cheated.
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- fun and creativity stolen by adultsrelated_toNicholson's claim that professionals and builders remove loose parts, robbing children and communities of creative engagement.
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- Nicholson's assertion that the design process robs end-users of creative engagement.
- Nicholson's critique of the professionalization of design and construction, arguing that lay participation in environmental creation has been systematically excluded.
- Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.
- Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency
- Nicholson's critique of how institutional design practice alienates lay participants from creative agency and environmental authorship.
- Experiment 2 control analysis confirming gating effect is specific to self-referential processing regime
- Central premise of the chapter.
- Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.