The notion of transdisciplinarity reaches its most potent expression not when two or three disciplines merely converge but when five or more fields dissolve into each other, forming new ontologies and ways of acting in the world; this is exemplified by Anto Lloveras’s Socioplastics, which interlaces architecture, relational aesthetics, industrial design, ecology, and epistemology through a mesh-based methodology focused on situational interventions, material rewilding, and sovereign pedagogies, and this fusion is not theoretical but activated through concrete transformations of urban ruins and industrial relics into metabolic terrains of engagement; however, Lloveras is not alone in this transdisciplinary intensification—practitioners like Imma Bofill, Fernanda X. Oyarzún, Genevieve G. Tremblay, and Adam Kuby enact similarly radical integrations, where many fields mutate into cohesive frameworks for addressing complex crises such as ecological collapse, epistemic hegemony, and urban disenchantment; Bofill’s Symbiocene Architecture Project fuses architecture, speculative literature, philosophy, ecology, and quantum-informed art to imagine buildings as symbiotic organisms embedded in multispecies logics, while Oyarzún merges marine biology, art, education, and data technologies into poetic-scientific interfaces that visualise marine life as cultural knowledge; Tremblay constructs interhemispheric ecologies of pedagogy and tech-art collaboration, blending mixed reality, environmental ethics, and curriculum design in projects like ASKXXI, where knowledge flows are mapped across hemispheres and disciplines; meanwhile, Kuby integrates landscape architecture, restoration ecology, indigenous epistemologies, public art, and urban planning to redesign infrastructures as living systems, placing falcon nests in buildings and tide pools in jetties to heal the urban-wild interface; in all cases, the key is not collaboration but epistemic invention—these approaches generate new methodologies rather than borrow tools, turning transdisciplinarity into a mode of existence where knowledge becomes a material, political, and ecological force; like Lloveras’s colour-coded machines and refunctioned factories, these practices restructure perception and agency, offering alternatives to technocratic fragmentation by engaging with the world as a relational mesh of meaning and matter, sustained through recursive experimentation and affective entanglement.
Lloveras, A. (2026). From Architectural Foundations to Socioplastics: Reconfiguring Urban Practice. Retrieved from https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/from-architectural-foundations-to.html#more
