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Free Arrangement System (Element)
A line system in which no governing geometric logic is imposed, allowing the character of individual materials and the designer's judgment to determine placement.
“The free arrangement system requires the highest design sensitivity - without a governing geometric logic, the resolution of the composition depends entirely on the designer's developed judgment.”
The free arrangement system is not the absence of design discipline but the choice to allow the individual character of materials - rather than a predetermined geometric logic - to determine their placement. It requires the highest degree of design sensitivity: without a governing system, full responsibility falls on the designer's ability to read materials and resolve the composition through judgment alone. It is most closely associated with vegetative design, where plant logic rather than geometric logic organises the arrangement. Source: Lersch (300).
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