Festival dell'architettura

From where does the idea of the living space originate? From the environment where we would feel best, where we would feel most at home.
And what could we use as an ideal to aspire towards?
Are we hampered here by traditions, repeating and building up old schemes again and again or borrowing them from our neigh­bours, whom we consider to be smarter than us?
In practical life, the sober calculation of real estate developers based on market signals usually settles matters. They cannot take any major financial risks. Their aims are entirely practical. The market does indeed provide signals, but only in retrospect…
The everyday life of architectural bureaus is directly connected with this world of ideas. Exceptions to the routine are unusual here. Perhaps only the occasional competition provides an opportunity to delve more thoroughly into the subject matter but competitions are also usually associated with the practical world after all.
Or are new ideas born in the offices of municipal governments, in the heads of the politicians who organise life in the city? Do they have the time and skills for it, though?
Or do ideas for the future originate from the synergetic com­bination of planners and social scientists, so to speak, who mathematically interpolate new spatial models using different kinds of data?