The administration of Formgard operates through the Office of Canonical Stewardship, which maintains the Registry of Resolved Forms: a living document, updated quarterly, that specifies which objects are authorised for public placement, at what scale, and in which districts. The Registry does not use the word 'permitted.' It uses the word 'resolved,' implying that each entry represents not a bureaucratic approval but the conclusion of an aesthetic argument — a form that has been debated, tested, and found to be, in the Registry's recurrent phrase, 'consonant with the total environment.' The review process is exacting. A proposal to introduce a new bench to the Promenade — to cite the most recent application, filed by the Atelier Fringe Cooperative and still pending after eleven months — requires: a material specification with supplier provenance; a photometric study showing the object's shadow behaviour at solstice, equinox, and three intermediate dates; a 'harmony assessment' measuri...
From the lore of The Panopticon of Good Taste.