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OPEN, LOOSE, GEOMETRY WITH SOCIAL ASPECTS
Consider then, open geometry with a social function as a way to semantic place. Not a rigid template to copy but rather patterns for an application (see e.g. Alexander et. Al, 1977; Salingaros, 2010a, Section 5) of loose parts where freedom in combining variables increases inventiveness, creativity and discovery (see Simon Nicholson’s ‘Theory of Loose Parts’ in Turner, 1976:128). New solutions emerge which are the result of the presence of acts past, present and future (Ricci, 1966:115). This language is neither systematic nor wholly unsystematic, but impressed with patterns, generally incomplete, by our pattern-making minds – incomplete patterns and half-finished designs (Ullman, 1962:238[1]).
[1] Citing Entwistle (1953:viii).