Writing from the intersection of environmental psychology and urban mediation, this text situates itself within the friction of the contemporary European city—specifically the academic-artistic corridor between Madrid and Barcelona. We activate this inquiry now because the "urban" is no longer just a physical container but a psychological and digital overlay that requires constant re-negotiation. The project emerges from a necessity to bridge the gap between scientific rigor and public visibility, addressing a mode of attention that is increasingly fragmented by digital noise. By utilizing the Urbanas initiative as a case study, we observe how ecological consciousness is not a passive state but a curated friction. It addresses the system of scientific dissemination by moving it out of the laboratory and into the relational sphere of the street, the screen, and the social network, demanding a more rhythmic, participatory form of public life.
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The core device of this project is a serial audiovisual archive—a modular system designed for distributed consumption. It operates through a logic of sequencing where interviews with key figures like LUPICINIO IÑIGUEZ RUEDA or JOSE ANTONIO CORRALIZA are not static portraits but operational nodes in a "Content Cloud." The method involves a multidisciplinary translation: transforming complex environmental theories—such as Place Attachment or Restorative Spaces—into short-form, mobile-first media objects. This is not a symbolic gesture of "awareness"; it is a functional system of knowledge architecture funded by FECYT and executed by LAPIEZA. The structure relies on the "Atom" syndication and the tag-based navigation of Blogger, allowing the work to behave like a living index. It unfolds through metadata, where a specific concept like "Phytophilia" becomes a searchable, clickable gateway that redirects the user’s trajectory through the urban-psychological landscape. To understand this scaffolding, we can look to the "rhizomatic" structures of Deleuze and Guattari, where knowledge has no central axis but multiple entry points, mirrored here by the "Cloud of Contents." This light conceptual frame is further supported by Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, which suggests that human development is inseparable from the layers of its environment. The Psyecology project acts as a digital microsystem that influences the broader macrosystem of urban planning. It also touches upon Jane Jacobs’ ideas of "organized complexity," treating the city and its psychological study as a web of interconnected processes rather than a collection of separate entities. The curatorial method here does not seek to explain the city but to map the "transactional" relationship between the person and the environment, treating the digital interface as a valid site for environmental appropriation and social construction.
This project moves and mutates across various timescales—from the 2009 "Experience of the City" videos to the 2013 "Another Leaf" congress—showing a persistent drift across institutional and digital territories. When re-situated from a desktop browser to a mobile screen, the work transforms from a static archive into a portable field guide for the urbanite. It becomes an "augmented" reality where the user can stand in a park in Barcelona while consuming the theory of "Restorative Spaces" in real-time. The project drifts through social media feeds, gets shared via Pinterest or X, and persists in the "Atom" comments, constantly re-formatting itself for new audiences. This trajectory demonstrates that environmental psychology is no longer confined to the university; it migrates into the "socioplastic" realm of art-science collaborations, evolving from a scientific discipline into a nomadic, media-fluid urban practice. Rather than offering a definitive conclusion, this work serves as an operative opening for future interventions in the public sphere. It suggests a shift in attention from the "built environment" to the "perceived environment," proposing that our cities are only as sustainable as our psychological connection to them. What future configurations are made possible when we treat urban data not as numbers, but as "representaciones sociales"? This curatorial launchpad invites architects, psychologists, and citizens to move beyond passive occupancy toward active "appropriation of space." It leaves the door open for new methodological drifts where science, digital media, and urban life coalesce into a single, evolving organism. The project does not end with the last comment; it begins again each time a user navigates the cloud, triggering a new relational event in the ongoing construction of the city.
LA EXPERIENCIA DE LA CIUDAD CURSO UAM -https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/environmental-psychology-and-social.html - SOCIOPLASTICS BY LLOVERAS https://antolloveras.blogspot.com
