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The goal of this paper is to show how the dynamics of free fractal structures can be described using a measure-valued invariant Lagrangian formalism based on the theory of Dirichlet forms. The author proceeds by presenting his ideas first in looser, physical terms and then putting them in a more formal framework. No proofs are presented. The author defines an effective Lagrangian metric, and notes that with this metric the fractal becomes a homogeneous space. In addition, the homogeneous dimension of the fractal structure governs the scaling of the relevant dynamical quantities. The author describes his notion of ``variational fractal'' and states his main result concerning a family of scaled Poincaré inequalities on balls defined by the Lagrangian metric. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0881.00037].