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Nicholson's claim that professionals and builders remove loose parts, robbing children and communities of creative engagement.
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- playassociated_withThe interaction with variables that children and adults engage in, which is enabled by loose parts.
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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.
- The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
- A warning against oversimplifying the nature of life-quality.
- The cognitive outcomes that are directly proportional to the presence of loose parts, according to Nicholson.
- Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.quote0.703Alexander's definition of genuine creativity, opposing arbitrary image-making.
- Alexander's definition of true creativity.