Showing posts with label DecolonialPraxis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DecolonialPraxis. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2026

We Did * Socioplastics as 25-Year Relational Mesh

In the collective voice, Socioplastics emerges as a transdisciplinary reclamation of twenty-five years of praxis, where we did inhabit the interstices of architecture and art, we were there in collaborative voids and urban incisions, and we are here now, weaving a sovereign mesh that metabolizes past gestures into futurity. Dated to January 2026 in Madrid, this framework—articulated across 300 interlinked posts—recalls the Mirador Building (2005), co-designed with MVRDV and Blanca Lleó, where the sky-plaza void pierced monolithic uniformity to frame distant Guadarrama vistas and foster communal attention, marking an early relational repair against claustrophobic repetition. From that Rotterdam-Madrid collaboration, through the Trole Building's execution—white ateliers cloaked in black zinc as a chromatological shield in Madrid South—we asserted autonomy in adaptive reuse, softening boundaries between industrial memory and expressive minimalism. The series traces this trajectory: generational salons, scenic mutations, biennale travels, and Doble Cara performances, all reactivated as hyperplastic writing in fireworks-like serial ecologies that inscribe bureaucratic residues with performative pulses. The MESH, a gravitational topology of nodes from Fireworks as self-representing form to the Yellow Bag's situational fixing, transforms authorship into distributed ecology, where objects—bags, blankets, lemons—serve as unstable fixers mediating affection, vulnerability, and care. This "we" counts the archive not as nostalgia but as infrastructure: relational topologies (El Dorado gold as shared gesture), thermodynamic essays, taxidermy incisions cutting cities to surface, and Fifth City fluid dynamics beyond historical layers. By super-counting scales—projecting toward ArtNations' nationhood naming and LaPieza's 2000 historical entries—the praxis engineers multipolar expansion, displacing institutional centers through tangential pressure and symbiotic infiltration, rendering art a mutant framework attentive to the ephemeral and the excluded.

Saturday, January 31, 2026

The Ontogenetic Architecture of the Socioplastic Mesh: Metabolic Sovereignty and the Epistemic Rewilding of the Urban Palimpsest * A Critical Trajectory within the LAPIEZA Nexus

 


Abstract: The contemporary urban condition, characterized by an ossified adherence to neoliberal spatiality, necessitates a radical departure toward what Anto Lloveras terminally defines as "Socioplastics." This essay interrogates the 235-node sequence of the Socioplastic Mesh—a transdisciplinary art-research project that functions as a metabolic intervention into the global urban fabric. By synthesizing post-human autopoiesis with topographic intelligence, the project transcends traditional architectural praxis to establish a sovereign, self-organizing system of "living epistemic violence." The following analysis explores the dual nature of the Mesh: first, as a semiotic instrument for decolonizing urban narratives through "ontological friction," and second, as a distributed digital infrastructure that leverages network rhythm and SEO-hack strategies to bypass institutional gatekeepers. Through the lens of the LAPIEZA framework, the project reclaims the city as a site of autophagic cannibalism and radical interdependence, ultimately proposing a new "Fifth City" where the boundaries between the biological body, the digital archive, and the built environment dissolve into a unified socioplastic entity. Keywords: Socioplastics, Metabolic Urbanism, Epistemic Sovereignty, LAPIEZA, Transdisciplinary Praxis, Urban Mesh.