This project, under the banner of "Human Life and Biodiversity," reframes environmental psychology not merely as a research field but as a cultural infrastructure that weaves together scientific inquiry, social impact and ecological sensitivity; emerging from Spanish and Portuguese academic contexts, it articulates a continental voice in the global discourse on psychological-environmental interdependence, positioning the discipline as both descriptive and generative: describing patterns of perception and behaviour while generating strategies for ecological responsibility and urban resilience; within this framework, researchers explore a broad spectrum of themes including landscape perception, environmental quality, and ecological responsibility, but what makes the project exceptional is its hybrid methodology, combining scientific rigour with an accessible, divulgative tone aimed at catalysing broader public and institutional engagement; for instance, the work of José Antonio Corraliza, central to this initiative, highlights the psychological need for nature in urban lives, reinforcing the idea that biodiversity is not only an ecological variable but a psychological necessity; in this sense, environmental psychology functions as a double interface: on one hand it diagnoses the stress, discomfort or alienation provoked by degraded environments, and on the other, it proposes restorative strategies embedded in landscape, design and communication; as such, this collection of contributions operates as both mirror and prototype, reflecting the current concerns of urbanised societies while offering tested interventions to foster wellbeing and sustainability through place attachment and ecological awareness.
What began in 2011 as a bold multimedia experiment by Anto Lloveras has today matured into a networked sensorium of environmental psychology, transgressing the conventional boundaries of academic publication to become a distributed cognitive infrastructure; by replacing static dissemination with dynamic metadata-rich audiovisual mapping, Lloveras and collaborators encoded a living archive that not only preserved disciplinary memory but also activated a trans-spatial dialogue among leading thinkers like Enric Pol, Setha Low and María Amérigo, forming a DNA archive of theory-practice hybrids that span psychology, ecology, urbanism and semiotics; the resulting mesh—composed of institutional nodes in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisboa and territorial satellites—functions as a relational urban nervous system, a platform where concepts such as "place identity", "phytophilia", or "urban morphology" operate not as abstractions but as metadata variables modulating our daily perception of urban ecologies; a specific example of this can be found in the Urban Taxidermy Collective, whose integration of green metabolism and superblock logics within the Barcelona mesh exemplifies how aesthetic, psychological and environmental data can converge into tangible urban transformations, while the presence of production entities like LAPIEZA Producciones or PSICAMB guarantees continuity across platforms, languages and publics; as of 2026, the original blog-channel has evolved into a mesh-active system, where each video now functions both as sensorial document and epistemic relay, capable of triggering reflections, actions and speculative models in synchrony with contemporary socio-climatic urgencies—in short, what was once a digital experiment has become a metadata ecosystem, one that re-codes spatial consciousness and advances the role of psychology as a critical urban interface.
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Pedagogy as Durational Praxis
Mesh metabolism drives the ecological transition and feminist urbanism via socioplastic epistemic nodes. By integrating visual arts with urban anthropology and transdisciplinary research, systemic design converges with critical geography. This framework reclaims the public realm through participatory design, radical pedagogy, and urban regeneration.
