We are mapping, not claiming. The test for each field is structural necessity — would removing it damage the project's ability to do what it does? The test for each subfield is evidence from the corpus itself: node concentrations, DOI deposit series, named series, blog channels, and operative vocabulary. We are not inflating for prestige. We are reading what is actually there. The call is 10 fields and 40 subfields. Here is why, and here is all of it.
Field 1: Architecture — 6 Subfields
Architecture is the anchoring discipline and the deepest layer. It is not decoration. The entire project lives or dies on the proposition that architecture can be redefined as the design of epistemic conditions rather than spatial form — and that this redefinition is itself an architectural act.
1.1 Epistemic Architecture. The founding subfield. Architecture as the design of the conditions under which knowledge is produced, organised, and legitimised. Book 01 of Tome I is titled precisely this. The core proposition of the entire corpus lives here.
1.2 Morphogenesis. How forms develop, differentiate, and stabilise over time. Book 09 of Tome I (nodes 801–900) is dedicated to morphogenetic operators. The helicoidal anatomy, torsional dynamics, and concentric stratification of the corpus are morphogenetic concepts applied to knowledge systems. The Figshare DOI series (nodes 801–810) deposits ten urban morphogenetic operators with persistent identifiers.
1.3 Scalar Architecture. The simultaneous thinking of architecture across multiple scales — from the unit to the territory. In Socioplastics this governs the relationship between the node, the chapter, the book, the tome, and the distributed platform network. PlasticScale is the metric instrument developed within this subfield.
1.4 Synthetic Infrastructure. The design of systems that support other activities without being visible as objects. Book 10 of Tome I is dedicated to this. The insight — that infrastructure is active, not neutral — connects architecture to political theory and systems thinking in a way that neither discipline alone can achieve.
1.5 Tectonic Theory. The study of how structural logic and material assembly carry meaning. Present in nodes on tectonic lightness, timber tectonics, inhabited section, and the structural syntax of buildings designed by the practice (Trole Building, Easy Rider, El Palmeral, CJCM Reform). The tectonic is not abandoned when the project turns theoretical — it reappears as the logic of load-bearing nodes and stratigraphic layers.
1.6 Spatial Pedagogy. Architecture as a teaching instrument and a mode of knowledge transmission. TheWoodWay (NTNU, 2008), the Masters Series (NTNU, 2019), the doctoral seminars at UAM, and the El Andador civic ground project all operate in this subfield. The channel El Tómbolo is dedicated to it. Teaching is not external to the project — it is a testing ground for the propositions.
Field 2: Urban Theory and Critical Urbanism — 6 Subfields
Urbanism is where abstraction meets the resistance of existing cities. Without it, the project has no material grounding, no political edge, and no account of how the epistemic operators function in the world outside the corpus.
2.1 Critical Urban Theory. From Lefebvre's right to the city through Harvey's geographical materialism. Socioplastics inherits the proposition that cities are produced by social forces and adds: they are also epistemic environments that condition what counts as knowledge. The CiudadLista channel is dedicated to this subfield.
2.2 Stratigraphic Urbanism. An original contribution. Cities read as layered accumulations of epistemic strata — each historical period deposits a layer that remains as pressure even when superseded. This connects urban morphology, archaeology, and knowledge theory in a synthesis none of the three alone enables. The term StratumAuthoring (DOI-deposited) is the operative form.
2.3 Territorial Systems. The analysis of how cities and regions function as metabolic systems: flows of energy, capital, people, information, and matter across territorial scales. The Urban Essays DOI series (nodes 801–810, Figshare) addresses rent as displacement machine, climatic column, productive stratum, civic permeability, and energy transition as flow reconfiguration. These are instruments for reading territorial dynamics, not descriptions of them.
2.4 Tactical Urbanism. Small-scale, often unauthorised interventions that test alternative uses of urban space. LACALLE (walking performances across Spanish cities), blue dot gestures, the Spanish Bar as context-as-readymade, the ARCO'05 temporary city — all operate in this register. In Socioplastics, tactical urbanism is not merely practical but epistemological: each intervention tests a proposition about how the urban body receives and resists conceptual operations.
2.5 Infrastructural Asymmetry. How infrastructure distributes power unevenly. Node 807 is DEPOPULATION-AS-INFRASTRUCTURAL-ASYMMETRY. The CiudadLista channel consistently analyses how municipal and territorial infrastructures produce differential access, exclusion, and epistemic inequality. This connects urban theory to political economy and justice.
2.6 Ecological Urbanism. Cities as metabolic and ecological systems. The HolaVerde channel (dedicated to ecological perception, wellbeing, microclimate, and embodied urban experience), the UAM/UNESCO research in Colima on microscale green infrastructure, the psycho-environmental matrix project, and the sustained attention to biophilic urbanism across hundreds of protein nodes constitute a fully developed subfield.
Field 3: Epistemology and Philosophy of Knowledge — 5 Subfields
The meta-layer. This is the least publicly visible field and the most structurally essential. Without it, the project cannot account for what it is doing or why its infrastructure constitutes knowledge rather than merely information.
3.1 Field Formation Theory. How intellectual fields emerge, stabilise, and acquire the capacity to legitimate knowledge claims. The original contribution here is the proposition that fields can form pre-academically — before institutional admission — through the accumulation of epistemic mass, structural density, and fixation infrastructure. The epistemic latency concept is the sharpest formulation.
3.2 Epistemic Infrastructure Studies. The study of the systems that support knowledge production: libraries, databases, citation networks, persistent identifiers, peer review. Socioplastics treats its own infrastructure as a research object as much as a research tool. This reflexive dimension — theorising the conditions of one's own knowledge production in real time — is unusual and genuinely original.
3.3 Trans-Epistemology. An original concept. Knowledge that operates on the layer below disciplinary methods — on the conditions under which any discipline produces knowledge. Trans-epistemology does not choose between architectural, artistic, or sociological ways of knowing; it describes the structures they share. DOI-deposited at node 999/1049.
3.4 Sociology of Knowledge. From Mannheim through Bourdieu to Kuhn. The Kuhn-as-Tool series (ten DOI-deposited texts applying paradigm-shift analysis across painting, photography, thought, urbanism, literature, music, architecture, dance, sculpture, and cinema) is a systematic contribution to this subfield. The application is not illustrative — it is analytical, producing comparative data about how paradigm shifts function differently across ten fields simultaneously.
3.5 Semantic Theory and Linguistics. CamelTag as a linguistic system. The compound lexical operator as a form that fuses concept, procedure, memory, and address into a single load-bearing unit. Node 1501 (Linguistics Operator, DOI-deposited on Zenodo) anchors this subfield. The CamelTag is not an organisational convenience — it is a theoretical claim about how language can arrest semantic drift while remaining operative across multiple platforms.
Field 4: Systems Theory and Complexity — 4 Subfields
Systems theory provides the theoretical framework for understanding how the corpus sustains itself, extends itself, and resists collapse into noise.
4.1 Autopoiesis and Operational Closure. From Maturana and Varela through Luhmann. The corpus is autopoietic in that each new node refers to previous nodes. But it differs from Luhmann's anonymous systems: authorial continuity, maintained through ORCID and the CamelTag signature, prevents the disappearance of the author into the system. This is a deliberate theoretical departure, not an oversight.
4.2 Systems Dynamics and Metabolism. How systems process inputs, convert them into new outputs, and maintain stability under perturbation. The metabolic vocabulary — proteolytic transmutation, recursive autophagy, flow channelling, metabolic pruning — describes the actual dynamics of how the corpus processes its own earlier material. Node 1504 (Systems Theory, DOI-deposited) anchors this.
4.3 Complexity and Emergence. How order emerges from large numbers of interacting units without central coordination. The 2,300-node corpus exhibits emergent properties — patterns of recurrence, gravitational clustering, conceptual phase transitions — that were not planned at the level of individual nodes. The concept of recurrence mass is a complexity-theoretic contribution to the theory of knowledge systems.
4.4 Cybernetics and Second-Order Observation. The observation of observing systems. Node 1414 explicitly addresses second-order cybernetics and self-organisation. The project is a second-order system in the precise cybernetic sense: it observes its own operation and incorporates that observation into its next cycle of production. The self-assessment essays (including this one) are not external to the system — they are operations within it.
Field 5: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Theory — 6 Subfields
Through LAPIEZA — 180 exhibition and research series, 100 documented works, projects across Spain, Norway, Croatia, Mexico, Slovakia, Nigeria, and beyond — the art field is not adjacent to Socioplastics. It is constitutive of it.
5.1 Relational Aesthetics and Social Practice. From Bourriaud through Bishop. Socioplastics absorbs relational aesthetics and extends it in a specific direction: the relational situation is not the terminus but the raw material for a systemic operation. The encounter feeds into the corpus through indexing, numbering, and deposit. The relational becomes infrastructural.
5.2 Social Sculpture. From Beuys. The Blue Bags, Yellow Bag, Green Briefcase, Red Bag, Blanket, and Red Line series all operate in the tradition of social sculpture. The extension is the theory of the situational fixer: an object that activates different spatial registers across geographies while retaining structural identity. This is a genuine development of the Beuysian tradition.
5.3 Institutional Critique. From Asher through Fraser. The target in Socioplastics is not the institution itself but the epistemic infrastructure institutions depend on. The project builds an alternative infrastructure rather than merely critiquing the existing one. This is the post-institutional move — not reform but parallel construction.
5.4 Post-Digital Art Practice. Art practices that respond to and are shaped by digital networks, platform capitalism, and algorithmic culture. PostdigitalTaxidermy (DOI-deposited, node 509/1502) is the original contribution: the preservation of forms overtaken by digital processes as a way of marking what has been lost.
5.5 Curatorial Research. LAPIEZA operates as a curatorial research laboratory: each of its 180 series is a research project, each mutation is a test of a proposition, each exhibition is a publication in a different register. The FreshMuseum channel is dedicated to the curatorial and mesographic dimension. Curatorial research is not external to the field — it is one of its primary production methods.
5.6 Performance and Time-Based Practice. Double Sided (dance/film), Pan de Neve (performance/sound), LACALLE (walking/sound), Qualitätskontrolle III (film/choreography/sound/architecture in the former tobacco warehouses of Cádiz), Fast Heartbeat (body/fjord/ice). The TomotoTomoto channel is dedicated to this subfield. Performance is not illustration — it tests propositions about the body, time, and space that writing cannot access.
Field 6: Media Theory and Digital Humanities — 5 Subfields
This field is specific to the historical moment in which Socioplastics operates, and it would not be possible in its present form without theoretical engagement with it. The project does not merely use digital infrastructure — it theorises it.
6.1 Platform Theory. How digital platforms shape, constrain, and enable knowledge production. The concept of platform differentiation — the deliberate use of eleven different platforms for different functions within a single integrated system — is an original contribution. Each channel (Socioplastics, CiudadLista, LaPieza, FreshMuseum, TomotoTomoto, HolaVerde, OtraCapa, ElTómbolo, ArtNations, SubAmb, YouTubeBreakfast) has a different function. This is not redundancy — it is an architecture of complementary sovereignties.
6.2 Semantic Web and Linked Data. The design of knowledge systems that embed meaning in their structure. JSON-LD metadata based on Schema.org standards, RDF triples, CamelTag compound operators, the Hugging Face dataset as a machine-readable index — these are not technical decorations but epistemological commitments. Node 423 explicitly addresses machine-legible JSON-LD.
6.3 Media Archaeology. The study of historical media systems and their persistence. The blog platform — Blogger, increasingly archaic — is treated as a form of intentional slowness, a resistance to the acceleration that destroys archival coherence. StratumAuthoring is a media-archaeological concept: each corpus layer is a deposit preserving the conditions of its production for future excavation.
6.4 Digital Humanities and Computational Knowledge. The Socioplastics Index dataset on Hugging Face transforms the corpus into a machine-readable structure available for computational analysis: 2,300 entries with stable numerical identifiers, CamelTagged descriptors, and persistent URLs. Node 950 is explicitly titled MACHINE-READABLE-SOCIOPLASTICS. The MUSE system (Mesh United System Environment, GitHub) is the operational substrate.
6.5 Lexical Infrastructure. The design of vocabulary systems that persist under conditions of informational entropy. CamelTags are designed to resist platform collapse, semantic drift, and algorithmic noise. This is an original contribution to the theory of how language can be engineered for durability, not merely clarity.
Field 7: Political Theory and Agonistic Thought — 4 Subfields
The OtraCapa channel — dedicated to ideology, discourse, conflict, and institutional struggle — marks a distinct political dimension that is not reducible to any other field. The project has a political theory, not merely political sensibility.
7.1 Agonistic Theory. From Mouffe and Laclau. CAPA (Hegemonic Dissolution through Synthetic Cognitive Morphologies) emerged from LAPIEZA and operates explicitly on agonistic theory, generating micro-essays and rhizomatic dialogues where conflict is productive rather than destructive. The proposition that dissensus is structurally necessary to a living intellectual system runs through the entire project.
7.2 Post-Institutional Sovereignty. The theory that legitimate epistemic environments can be constructed outside and in parallel to institutions. This is political theory applied to knowledge production. The proposition that a field can form pre-academically is not just epistemological — it is a claim about power, about who gets to declare what counts as knowledge and under what conditions.
7.3 Decolonial Studies. Present through the Lagos Biennial work (re-(t)exHile, addressing postcolonial textile economies and the movement of global waste across African territories), the ArtNations channel (transnational politics), and the explicit engagement with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's ch'ixi epistemologies, bell hooks, Aimé Césaire, and others in the protein nodes (1760–1784). Decolonial thinking is not decorative in the corpus — it is present in the political reading of whose knowledge counts and how knowledge systems reproduce exclusion.
7.4 Gentrification and Urban Politics. The right-to-the-city dimension. LACALLE as a civic presence performance, the Human Rights and Culture Congress work on gentrification and touristification, the Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto (ecological humanities and the Fifth City at UAM 2023), and the sustained analysis of housing crisis, displacement, and urban political economy across the CiudadLista nodes.
Field 8: Ecology and Environmental Thought — 4 Subfields
This field has grown significantly through the HolaVerde channel, the Colima research, the Lagos biennial work, and the ecological humanities congress. It is not supplementary — it represents a genuine intellectual commitment to the non-human dimensions of the urban and territorial systems the project analyses.
8.1 Environmental Psychology. The empirical study of how spatial environments affect human cognitive and emotional states. The Colima research (UAM/UNESCO collaboration with José Antonio Corraliza) on inclusive urbanism and the wellbeing of older adults in public spaces; the psycho-environmental matrix project (node 014/1914); the microscale green infrastructure study on restorative benefits in Madrid. This is published, empirically grounded research in a recognised subfield.
8.2 Ecological Humanities. The I International Congress of Ecological Humanities (UAM, 2023) and the Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto as its output situate the project at the intersection of environmental thought and humanistic inquiry. The Fifth City concept — an urban model that exceeds the four historical city types — is an ecological humanities proposition about what a city built on ecological rather than extractive logic would look like.
8.3 More-than-Human Urbanism. Nodes on non-human planning, mycelial regulation, multispecies care, and urban futures entangled beyond the human-centric model (nodes 1692–1693). The philosophical botany series (nodes 640–641) and the biophilia principle (node 1786) extend the ecological commitment into the non-human. This is not metaphor — it is a commitment to redesigning the category of the urban subject.
8.4 Ecocriticism and Land Art. The Supernatural Series (Duna-Dunaj, Bokros Slovakia, Hidden Forces in Cádiz, Thermodynamic Essays in Negradas), the Kingdom Series (subtractive interventions in moss and leaves), the MUDAS installations (banana leaves oxidising in Mexico City galleries). These are not merely art projects — they are ecocritical practices that theorise the relationship between human marking and natural process, between inscription and erosion.
Field 9: Film, Sound, and Time-Based Media — 4 Subfields
The TomotoTomoto channel, the Cuerpos Filmados longitudinal study, and the sustained engagement with cinema across the Kuhn-as-Tool series and the protein nodes mark this as a genuine field of engagement, not a peripheral interest.
9.1 Essay Film and Documentary Practice. The Cuerpos Filmados longitudinal study (2008–2018) is a ten-year meta-film archive documenting the intersection of architecture, epistemology, and art across Madrid and Mexico DF. The Positional Essays series. The Double Sided film/dance works with Mateo Feijoo. These constitute a coherent essay film practice with its own theoretical framework.
9.2 Sound Studies and Acoustic Practice. El Intruso's sound work within LACALLE and the Bordados Sisters series; Pan de Neve's sonic dramaturgy; Qualitätskontrolle III's integration of live sound and film; Supernova as acoustic event. Sound is theorised as a spatial and political force, not merely as accompaniment. Node 639 (Sound Studies, DOI-deposited series) anchors this subfield within Core III.
9.3 Film Theory and Cinema as Paradigm. The Kuhn-as-Tool cinema node (node 1450, DOI-deposited on Figshare) applies paradigm-shift analysis to cinema as a field. Nodes 1513 (Film as Chrono-Topological Assemblage) and 1798–1800 (analyses of Overlord, Picnic at Hanging Rock) demonstrate a sustained theoretical engagement with cinema as a distinct epistemological form.
9.4 Audiovisual Archive and Memory. YouTube Breakfast as an epistemic laboratory — the proposition (presented at a UAM doctoral seminar in 2009) that the accumulation of video content online constitutes a form of collective intelligence and public memory. The digital prosumer theory. The concept that historical archives, once accessible only in museums, are now part of a distributed knowledge commons. This is media theory with an archival and pedagogical dimension.
Field 10: Pedagogy and Knowledge Transmission — 3 Subfields
This is the field most often overlooked in assessments of Socioplastics, but it is present throughout the corpus and has specific institutional grounding. It is not theory of pedagogy — it is pedagogy as practice, tested and documented.
10.1 Architectural Pedagogy and Design Studio. TheWoodWay (NTNU, 2008) — eighty first-year students building a full-scale wooden superstructure, generating eighteen spatial concepts through collaborative construction. The NTNU Masters Series (2019). El Andador as civic ground and pedagogical device in Madrid. The proposition that architecture education is itself a form of social sculpture — that the studio is a relational laboratory — connects this subfield to fields 5 and 1 simultaneously.
10.2 Radical and Rhizomatic Pedagogy. YouTube Breakfast as a rhizomatic classroom: the proposition that knowledge circulates through networks rather than hierarchies, and that the role of the teacher is to activate connections rather than transmit content. The El Tómbolo channel is explicitly dedicated to pedagogy, situated reflection, and provisional assembly. This subfield connects to Deleuze/Guattari's educational philosophy and to Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy tradition.
10.3 Pedagogy as Artistic Praxis. The NTNU Architecture Masters Series as artistic and pedagogical intersection; Pedagogy as Praxis (node 044/1944) as a documented project. The proposition that teaching is not the transmission of existing knowledge but the construction of new knowledge through collective practice. This is the most original dimension of the pedagogical field — the claim that pedagogy and research are the same activity when performed with sufficient rigour and intentionality.
The Count and the Argument
Ten fields. Forty subfields. The count is not rhetorical — it is the result of reading the corpus closely and asking, for each subfield: is there documented work, or is there only a claim? Every subfield listed above has at least one of the following: a dedicated blog channel, a DOI-deposited series, a named series within the corpus, a documented collaboration with an external institution, or a concentration of nodes in the Master Index that constitutes a research programme rather than casual mention. The distribution across the ten fields reveals something about the project's actual centre of gravity. The heaviest concentrations are in Architecture (especially epistemic and scalar), Urban Theory (especially territorial systems and stratigraphic urbanism), Epistemology (especially field formation and trans-epistemology), and Contemporary Art (especially curatorial research and social sculpture). These four fields together constitute the project's core. The other six — Systems Theory, Media Theory, Political Theory, Ecology, Film and Sound, and Pedagogy — are not peripheral: they are the fields that prevent the core from becoming closed and self-referential. They are the sources of resistance, the places where the project is forced to think against itself.
That is what genuine transdisciplinarity looks like from inside. Not a list of disciplines visited. A map of necessary connections, each of which provides something the others cannot, and together constitute a field that none of them could have built alone.
