Reflection on WK 1 Reading: Innovation that will change your tomorrow.

This article was indeed fun to read and encouraged me to keep trying, to keep pushing the envelope of creativity.  I like the honesty in this article as it clearly explains that ideas/ inventions are not always initially successful. Sometimes ideas need to be massaged and developed and often take a great deal of time to perfect.  Even the light bulb was not created overnight.  Patience and determination are key attitudes that resonated with me after reading about the many intriguing inventions that are already in development.  Compared to the last reading, Revell’s 88.7: Stories from the First Transnational Traders, where an extreme scenario existed, this reading showed creative inventions that have either come about or will do in the near future.  This proves to me that imagination, coupled with alternative technological applications, can actually make ideas a reality!  The truth that inventions and idea generation is messy, also appeals to me.  It provides a somewhat less-restrictive platform for development.  The trial and error and re-evaluation that is a necessary process of innovation allows a product/ to naturally evolve and change.  I agree that in fact, innovation has no end as “what we want and what we need keeps changing.”  This open-end adaption reminds me of the earlier reading of the Archigram group which believed Architecture should be open to change (Sadler 2005).  Is it this ‘open-ended’ approach that is still the missing link in the longevity of our built environment?  In our rush to ‘complete’ buildings have we actually confined living?  How can we stop and re-evaluate the process of an industry that has been ingrained in accepted social and cultural contexts for so long?