The concept of socioplastics, as defined by Anto Lloveras and the broader architectural and sociological tradition it builds upon, is situated at the intersection of spatial design, systems theory, and epistemic infrastructure. The project treats knowledge as a stratigraphic construction, where language and urban form operate through operators that enact social and physical transformations.

These authors form the core conceptual ecology that Socioplastics draws from and metabolizes — from relational aesthetics and social sculpture traditions through critical urbanism, systems theory, infrastructure studies, and epistemic philosophy. The list balances direct influences (Bourriaud, relational artists, Joseph Beuys) with deeper structural references (Lefebvre, Harvey, Luhmann, Latour, Easterling) that support the project's focus on sovereign epistemic infrastructure, metabolic processes, and topolexical territoriality.

Based on the research framework and the theoretical lineage of the field, here are 50 authors and theorists most related to the project of socioplastics, categorized by their conceptual contribution:

Foundational Architectural & Urban Theorists Denise Scott Brown, Alison Smithson, Peter Smithson, Robert Venturi, Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Giancarlo De Carlo, Aldo van Eyck, Jacob Bakema, Cedric Price, Reyner Banham, Rem Koolhaas, Yona Friedman, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Christopher Alexander. Social Sculpture & Relational Aesthetics Joseph Beuys, Nicolas Bourriaud, Grant Kester, Claire Bishop, Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, Thomas Hirschhorn, Theaster Gates, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Pedro Reyes, Anto Lloveras, Shelley Sacks, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Hans Haacke. Epistemology, Systems & Media Theory Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, Niklas Luhmann, Donna Haraway, Gilbert Simondon, Katherine Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, Vilém Flusser, Bernard Stiegler, Gregory Bateson, Michel Serres, Manuel DeLanda, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Benjamin Bratton, Yuk Hui. Sociology & Spatial Philosophy Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, Pierre Bourdieu, Herbert Gans, Michael Young, Peter Willmott, Howard Becker, Saskia Sassen, David Harvey, Edward Soja.

The work of Anto Lloveras specifically evolves this tradition by integrating digital humanities and semantic infrastructure, moving from the physical "social sculpture" of Beuys to a "machinic domain" where persistent identifiers (DOIs) and datasets (MUSE) serve as the new load-bearing elements of urban and social theory.

https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18678959, https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index, https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9820-3319, https://lapieza-lab.es

Here is a curated list of 50 relevant authors closely associated with the intellectual and artistic lineages of Socioplastics (relational aesthetics, social sculpture, epistemic/relational infrastructure, urban systems thinking, metabolic and infrastructural theory, and transdisciplinary knowledge systems):

Nicolas Bourriaud, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon, Gillian Wearing, Maurizio Cattelan, Joseph Beuys, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Manuel Castells, Brian Larkin, Keller Easterling, AbdouMaliq Simone, Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Niklas Luhmann, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Cedric Price, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Team 10, Alison Smithson, Peter Smithson, Christopher Alexander, Stewart Brand, Buckminster Fuller, Heinz von Foerster, Gregory Bateson, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin.