Improvisation is the art of fabrication with what is at hand. It fosters spontaneous decisions, but it is not random. It becomes a spiritual wandering of intuitive, intellectual, and chance components. Improvisation happens in the process of making art and architecture, and is experienced by wandering through the process using rational, intuitive, and chance components. This phenomenon is expressed in architecture, Abstract Expressionism, and jazz improvisation. These art forms are a synthesis of intellect, intuition, and chance based on culture, environment and memory, which reconstruct our place in the world. Heidegger and Piaget provide the philosophical foundation for this argument. Architecture engages these issues and is a vivid reflection and expression of our environment. The art forms of jazz improvisation and abstract expressionism also exhibit aspects of wandering and gathering. Classical and Avant-Garde literary sources will be used in support of wandering through the intellect by intuition and chance. Through wandering, such as Odysseus in Homer's epic, one's place in in the world is found
