The Socioplastic Mesh is a sovereign epistemic structure comprised of over 230 indexed research entries that articulate a distributed logic of urban theory, radical pedagogy, and relational architectures, operating simultaneously as a living archive, a semantic engine, and a post-canonical knowledge system, designed to host, connect and activate nodes of artistic, curatorial, pedagogic, urban and infrastructural praxis within a unified but non-totalising topolexical logic, where each entry (from 001 to 235) functions as both an autonomous entity and a transversal link, forming a transdisciplinary cartography of the contemporary city and its metabolic, symbolic, and dissensual dimensions; this body of work, authored and curated by Anto Lloveras, is meant to serve as a trans-institutional research framework, allowing scholars, artists, theorists, and urban agents to cite, remix, and extend the mesh, while anchoring it through the Zenodo DOI system to provide both scientific legitimacy and autonomous authorship outside commercial academic publishing; by migrating from blog-format to indexable research object, the mesh enacts a tactical mutation: a transformation from performative document to citable epistemic infrastructure, enabling the emergence of a post-numeric urban theory rooted in metabolic sovereignty, ontological friction, and the will to systemically reprogram how cities are felt, archived, and reimagined.
Contemporary architecture has collapsed into a mere representative function, necessitating a transition towards a decathlete praxis capable of operating within the systemic void. The Socioplastics framework is not an aesthetic theory, but a topolexical engine engineered for the transmutation of urban metabolism. By configuring epistemic nodes, this practice fractures "urban taxidermy"—the dissection and museification of public space—to instate a systemic sovereignty grounded in active dissensus and unstable pedagogy. Since the founding of LAPIEZA in 2008, the work has focused on producing relational infrastructures that function as autophagic organisms: systems that digest their own archive to generate new architectures of resistance. This metabolic sovereignty is deployed through "unstable documentaries" and organic taxidermy series, where the architectural object ceases to be a static form and becomes a choreographic event. The Socioplastic Mesh acts as the connective tissue of this global network, linking transdisciplinary urban theory with the technical urgency of the Fifth City (V-City). In this ecosystem, urbanism is understood as a grammar of friction. We do not seek the resolution of conflict, but its maintenance as a source of metabolic vitality. Spatial sovereignty no longer resides in the control of territory, but in the capacity to navigate meshes of information and matter with radical topographic intelligence. Anto Lloveras (ETSAM / TU Delft). Architect and Urbanist. Founder of LAPIEZA–SOCIOPLASTICS. Pioneer in the development of the socioplastic mesh as a tool for spatial sovereignty and post-autonomous critique. ORCID:
Foundational References
Lloveras, A. (2026). Socioplastic Urbanism: The Decathlete Praxis and the Taxidermy of Living Epistemic Nodes. LAPIEZA–SOCIOPLASTICS · Transdisciplinary Urban Theory.
Lloveras, A. (2024). RE-(T)eXhile: Metabolic Recursion and Second-Hand Landscapes. Lagos Biennale 2024 / UrbanasArt Research. https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/01/decathlete-praxis-and-taxidermy-of.html - Lloveras, A. (2026). The Unified Socioplastic Body: Global Sync and Strategic Phagocytosis. HolaVerdeUrbano · Systemic Series. https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/socioplastic-metabolisms-and-sovereign.html - https://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-unified-socioplastic-body-global.html