NonA Weekly: POWER OF IMAGINATION 💪

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Dear readers and friends,

In the realm of our competitions, we consistently challenge participants 💪 to unleash their creative prowess 🧠 and shatter the confines of conventional thinking 🤔. Yet, when it comes to architecture 🏛️, what exactly does this enigmatic force of creativity entail?
Architectural practice has always been the successful 💍 marriage of science 🔬 and art 🎨, a field where creativity 🤯 meets practicality. However, in recent years, we’ve seen a resurgence in the appreciation for a key component 🌟 in our field, often understated yet equally crucial—imagination 💭.
Imagination is the tool 🧰 that enables us to envisage possibilities beyond what is immediately before us ✨. It bridges the gap between reality 🌐 and potentiality. It allows architects to conceptualize structures 📐 that don’t just answer a brief 📝 but create environments that inspire 🔥, provoke thought 📣, and even challenge the way we interact with space.

1. IMAGINATION: THE POWER 💪 OF CREATIVITY
A creative mind is a mind full of magic ✨. Imagination is the key to unlocking that MAGIC. In this fascinating and insightful TED talk 🎥, Tom Bates, provides key insights on unlocking the power of creative imagination.

2. IMPORTANCE OF FOSTERING CREATIVITY 🧠 IN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Architecture 🏛️ is an expression of who you are. The inherently public nature of ARCHITECTURE means that the work architects do is similar to sociology and psychology 👨‍⚕️; setting the stage for social behaviours and interior reactions.

3. 5 STAGES OF CREATIVITY 📝 THAT ARCHITECTS EXPERIENCE
As creators, we all go through stages of CREATIVITY. Some phases are more severe 📈 than others, but getting emotionally involved is, in most cases, unavoidable. In many cases, the emotional intensity 🤍 of design can be so intense, it begins to resemble another well-known emotional process.

4. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CREATIVE ARCHITECT AND IS CREATIVITY EVER LIMITED? 🤔
Creativity lives in architecture. It’s a freeing 🕊️ field that allows the mind to go wild and bring ideas to life. ARCHITECTURE students might be inclined towards becoming architects because of the nature of the practice. However, how true does that hold when faced with reality? 🤷

5. WHERE GOOD IDEAS 💡 COME FROM?
With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson addresses an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? ☝️ Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style ✍️, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging STORY of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.

6. CREATIVITY IN ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION 📖 AND ITS AFFECT ON ARCHITECTURAL THOUGHT
Creativity in architecture plays a roll in providing the right purposes of architect by fulfilling the job, respecting the environment 🌱 and the perfect use of construction materials 🧱. In other words, the CREATIVITY has an essential roll of giving the motive to the architect by providing the right environment which architecture requires in our modern time.

7. CREATIVITY IN ARCHITECTURE—A REVIEW 📝 ON EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS CORRELATED WITH CREATIVITY IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
This paper emphasizes the significance of CREATIVITY in architecture and propose that the transformation of present civilization 🏛️ into a creative future lies in changing our thinking patterns 🧠, with creativity being a key player.

Stay creative and see you all next week! 👋
Daniela

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