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Fig. 1: Ideational accelerations of the creative process. Zaha Hadid, Parametricism Research.<br />

Underst<strong>and</strong>ing such mechanisms of the cerebral apparatus allows interpreting the articulate creative path<br />

that is triggered each time one intervenes on a topos in order to transform it according to a determined<br />

framework of human aspirations.<br />

Beginning from the primeval idea, it becomes necessary to define heuristic strategies toward the search for<br />

equilibrium between markedly different elements that are ascribable to the identity features of the place, to<br />

the fecundity of forms, to functional, <strong>cultural</strong> instances <strong>and</strong> to technological innovations.<br />

It is a kind of journey without a definite route or pre-established destination <strong>and</strong>, perhaps, without any<br />

effective conclusion, which is undertaken through stimulating all the systems <strong>and</strong> mechanisms of our<br />

cerebral apparatus, also those of our unconscious, with implied <strong>and</strong> latent potential.<br />

The inherent danger in this type of journey, each time new <strong>and</strong> different, is that it may trigger a certain<br />

inhibition of creative capacities, almost a kind of ‘ideational apraxia’, due to various causes, among which<br />

attitudes of passive adaptation to technological innovations, at times extreme, or a certain satisfaction in the<br />

unconditional repetition, often unjustified, of recognizably autographic forms, seem to prevail in contemporary<br />

production.<br />

Fig. 2: Empirical logic <strong>and</strong> heuristic strategies. Zaha Hadid <strong>and</strong> Patrik Schumaker, Parametric Urbanism.<br />

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