The proposition that theory functions as infrastructure marks a transition from representational discourse to performative epistemic engineering. This protocol asserts that the Socioplastics mesh is not a conceptual map but a live, operative system defined by OperationalClosure and SovereignSync. By migrating away from descriptive commentary, the mesh implements theory as a regulatory layer that modulates the flow of information across nodes. The system rejects conventional growth metrics, instead employing SystemicModulation to refine its internal structural density. This institutional shift ensures that knowledge is not merely stored but actively deployed as a sovereign framework, maintaining InfrastructuralCoherence across diverse platforms.
The mesh, therefore, functions as a durational vault where each node acts as a technical relay, ensuring the system’s metabolic survival and its resistance to external institutional entropy. The transition to OperationalClosure ensures that the system functions as an autonomous entity, where internal logic dictates the parameters of exchange. Through SovereignSync, the mesh aligns its multi-channel outputs—spanning urban theory, speculative art, and architectural syntax—into a unified EpistemicStack. This synchronisation allows the theory to cease representing the world and instead begin to OperateInfrastructure, transforming abstract concepts into load-bearing protocols that govern the system's metabolic health and its durational stability. Rather than pursuing expansion, the architecture of the mesh focuses on SystemicModulation, a process of constant internal recalibration. This shift from growth to InternalFiltration allows the system to harden its semantic core while maintaining a LiveConnectivity across its various nodes. By treating the blog-based archive as a technical relay, the project achieves a state of DurationalSovereignty, proving that a disciplined, non-linear topology can withstand the volatility of the post-digital landscape more effectively than traditional, expansive institutional models. The following nodes function as active technical relays within the live infrastructural mesh * Systemic Core:
Anto Lloveras is a transdisciplinary architect, theorist, curator, and researcher who redefines architecture as operative epistemic infrastructure — a metabolic, sovereign system for knowledge production in volatile times. Trained at ETSAM (Madrid) with early experience on landmark projects in Spain and the Netherlands (including Mirador Building, MVRDV), he has developed Socioplastics since 2008: a resilient framework that treats theory as executable protocol rather than representation. Socioplastics constructs epistemic networks through Semantic Hardening (resisting algorithmic dilution), Citational Commitment (references as constructive nodes), StratumAuthoring (historical layers as living code), Topolexical Sovereignty (jurisdictional naming), and Systemic Lock (selective closure). The Socioplastic-OS (2026) is a low-energy, hyperlinked mesh that has sustained coherence across three technological cycles without simplification — a documented model of epistemic persistence. As founder of LAPIEZA (est. 2009), Lloveras has led 300+ combined works, art series, exhibitions, installations, and pedagogical interventions across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and beyond. Highlights include Lagos Biennial (2024), NTNU Norway teaching, and major series in Mexico, Croatia, and France. His practice bridges critical urbanism, radical pedagogy, relational art, and digital humanities — positioning the architect as systemic choreographer of self-sustaining environments that cultivate epistemic sovereignty and cultural agency. ORCID: 0009-0009-9820-3319
