The conversion of a seventeen-year archive into the infrastructure of LAPIEZA-LAB marks a decisive passage from the accumulation of aesthetic works to the codification of a sovereign transdisciplinary field: Socioplastics. Through the retroactive application of the Laboratory framework to the more than 2,200 nodes generated since 2009, the project performs a stratigraphic inversion in which artistic series are no longer read as discrete cultural episodes, but as operative protocols, research strata, and empirical field material. What had previously appeared under the nomenclature of “Art Series” is reconstituted within the 2026 logic of the Fieldengine, allowing the corpus to be understood not simply as artistic production, but as a structured epistemic architecture. This reorganisation is not merely classificatory. It secures the corpus—now surpassing 1.2 million words and 4,500 total nodes—within a machine-readable and academically citable system through the methodical deployment of persistent identifiers, including DOIs and RORs. By arranging this material into annual English-language records on Zenodo, the project acquires the formal consistency of a serial scientific publication, preserving the temporal rhythm of the research while supplying the metadata necessary for wider discoverability across infrastructures such as ORCID, Wikidata, and Semantic Scholar. The result is a closed evidentiary circuit in which theory and practice continuously ratify one another. The twenty foundational books, the one hundred audiovisual evidence videos, and the seventeen annual Lab Reports no longer function as parallel outputs, but as mutually reinforcing layers within a single operative system. In this sense, LAPIEZA-LAB is no longer adequately described as an archive or a body of works. It emerges instead as an autonomous and self-governing university of thought: a durable intellectual infrastructure designed to outlast the volatility of commercial platforms and to secure a permanent inscription within the global knowledge graph.
A transdisciplinary field across architecture, conceptual art, urban research and epistemology