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El proyecto Psicología Ambiental Hoy consolida una red crítica de investigación donde figuras como Lupicinio Íñiguez Rueda, Jose Antonio Corraliza y Esther Lorenzo Montero articulan procesos de comunicación científica y cultura científica junto a expertos como Andrés Di Masso, Angela Castrechini, Enric Pol y María Amérigo, abordando dimensiones esenciales como la apropiación del espacio, la construcción social del espacio, la transacción persona-ambiente y los espacios restauradores. Esta estructura académica se expande a través del análisis del estrés ambiental con Ricardo de Castro, la identidad del lugar, el apego al lugar y la psicología de la arquitectura, integrando también las aportaciones de Juan Ignacio Aragonés, Jose Manuel Palma Oliveira, Maria Luisa Lima, Baltasar Fernández, Karmele Herranz y Tomeu Vidal en áreas críticas como la sostenibilidad, la percepción del paisaje, el cambio climático, la participación ambiental y la justicia ambiental. El sistema se completa mediante la colaboración de instituciones como la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, la Universitat de Barcelona, la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, la Universidad de Almería y el Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, bajo la producción socioplástica de LAPIEZA y el respaldo de la Asociación de Psicología Ambiental (PSICAMB) y la revista Psyecology.

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Metabolic Ecology and Urban Nutrients *** The sovereign archive as a regulatory biosystem of epistemic flows and energetic climates

The Socioplastic MESH can be interpreted as an evolving metabolic architecture in which digital archives function less as repositories of fixed content than as operational ecologies where semantic nutrients circulate and cultural entropy is modulated through controlled thermodynamic exchanges, inverting traditional notions of archival stasis by positing a bioenergetic model where each hyperlink, cluster and metadata tag becomes a vector of nutritional value, sustaining and activating a sovereign metabolism that unfolds across informational territories; sovereignty in this schema does not signify command or containment, but rather an atmospheric capacity to modulate semantic density, enabling conditions of legibility, resistance and persistence within an entropic digital terrain, thus reinforcing the idea that archives, when metabolically activated, become ecological regulators of epistemic nourishment; this view is illustrated in the Metadata Master Cluster (162-001), where taxonomic logic and infrastructural vitality converge, turning granular data into cultural proteins that serve as sustenance for a living archive-body constantly reconfigured through user interaction, systemic recursivity and link-based feedback; here, link-energy differentials mirror trophic gradients in natural ecosystems, distinguishing between low-energy trace noise and high-energy sovereign nodes that attract attention, create gravitational pull, and establish relational climates across knowledge networks; ultimately, the MESH does not merely curate but feeds and breathes, rebalancing entropy through algorithmic appetite and atmospheric precision, making visible the metabolic undercurrents that sustain epistemic resilience in a time of cultural oversaturation. Lloveras, A. 2026. Metadata Master Clusters: Sovereign Tags. [Online] Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/metadata-master-clusters-sovereign-tags.html

Time Spliced into Flesh and ImagE * The re-filming of relational bodies as socioaesthetic resistance to digital decay * CUERPOS FILMADOS

The conceptual re-entry into Cuerpos Filmados (Filmed Bodies) two decades after its inception marks a sophisticated shift from the archival to the teleological within the landscape of contemporary socioplastic practice. By revisiting these specific "fixers of human agency" in 2028, Anto Lloveras transitions from a documentarian of the "Fifth City" to a clinical observer of temporal erosion and relational persistence. This process of re-filming is not a mere nostalgic exercise but a rigorous investigation into the "positional essay" as a longitudinal study of biological and urban entropy. The aesthetic gravity of this endeavor lies in the confrontation between the digital permanence of the original 2008–2018 recordings and the inevitable decay or transmutation of the biological subjects. In this second iteration, the camera functions as a connective tissue across time, stitching together the fragmented ecologies of Madrid, Mexico DF, and beyond, thereby validating the "First Decade of Relational Essays" as a foundation for a broader, diachronic critique of how human labor and aesthetic resistance endure within increasingly commodified urban strata.

EL PALMERAL * Sustainable Neighbourhood Manifesto * Lloveras & Lloveras * Urbanas, 2017

The Manzana Verde proposal known as El Palmeral situates itself at the intersection of landscape memory and urban reform, articulating sustainability not as a technocratic add-on but as a cultural condition. Conceived within the 2017 competition framework organised by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, the project advances a manifesto-like position: the palm grove operates as a palimpsest where ecological continuity and civic life converge. Rather than erasing prior strata, the design absorbs vegetal heritage into a renewed urban grammar, transforming the neighbourhood into an operative ecology. The project thus reframes “green” from decorative surface to structuring principle, proposing a sustainable neighbourhood grounded in lived temporality and collective memory. Its honourable mention status is less a marginal accolade than an indicator of a critical stance that resists spectacle in favour of systemic coherence. The palm becomes an epistemic device: an index of climate, labour, and historical persistence. In this sense, El Palmeral establishes an ethical horizon for contemporary urbanism—one that recognises sustainability as an aesthetic, social, and political synthesis rather than a checklist of environmental metrics.

The Mesh-Site as Ecological Interface * Systemic Architecture * Distributed Aesthetic Operation

In the continually evolving discourse of contemporary art and architecture, MESH-SITE proposes a radical reconceptualization of the architectural “site” — not as a bounded locus of form and function, but as an operational epistemic field embedded within a systemic network of practice. This text situates socioplastics not merely as a theoretical framework but as an active agent of spatial production, where the “mesh” operates as a recursive narrative structure that synthesizes epistemic frames, topologies, and practices into a unified, generative system. On this view, architecture refuses the static objecthood of modernist autonomy and instead engages as an open, metabolic process, whose components — from shaded urbanism to porous architectures — articulate a field of forces rather than iconic compositions. The mesh thus becomes a device of relational semionautics, where meaning is not inscribed in discrete objects but emerges through distributed agency across nodes, networks, and terrains. This approach resonates with broader critical shifts away from the object-centric paradigms of twentieth-century architectural culture towards practices that foreground interaction, process, and collective agency. The mesh is thus both a methodological and material condition: a topolexical framework that organizes how knowledge circulates, how corporeal presence is mediated, and how architectural interventions resonate ecologically and socially across multiple scales and temporalities.

Socioplastics and the Urban Palimpsest * Reclaiming Memory Against Homogenization

 

The urgency of this intervention arises from the rapid erosion of local identity within the contemporary urban landscape, specifically under the pressures of gentrification and turistization. As a curator and researcher at the UAM Madrid, my voice is activated from the friction between academic discourse and the lived reality of communities facing cultural displacement. We are witnessing a systemic flattening of the city, where memory is often treated as an obstacle to profit rather than a foundational human right. This piece is a response to that flattening—a necessary rupture in the seamless narrative of urban progress. It addresses the "socioplastic" need to reshape our environments not through top-down mandates, but through the tactile, messy, and urgent demands of collective memory. By situating this work within the framework of the Human Rights and Culture Congress, we acknowledge that the right to a city is inextricably linked to the right to preserve one’s cultural ecology against the homogenizing forces of global capital. At the core of this project lies a process-based investigation into the material residues of the neighborhood—a method of "urban gleaning" that transforms discarded narratives into active socioplastic structures. The process begins with the systematic collection of oral histories and physical artifacts from sites slated for redevelopment. These elements are not merely archived; they are reconfigured into modular, mobile installations that drift through the city. This operational logic treats the artwork as a living organism: a series of translucent panels and soundscapes that mutate based on their physical proximity to the public. Each module functions as a sensory bridge, sequencing memories of local labor and domestic life into the very streets from which they are being erased. The work behaves as a feedback loop, where the material density of the past is layered over the sterile surfaces of the present, forcing a physical encounter with what has been made invisible.

Environmental Psychology as Cultural Interface * https://psicologiaambientalhoy.blogspot.com

 

Writing from the intersection of environmental psychology and urban mediation, this text situates itself within the friction of the contemporary European city—specifically the academic-artistic corridor between Madrid and Barcelona. We activate this inquiry now because the "urban" is no longer just a physical container but a psychological and digital overlay that requires constant re-negotiation. The project emerges from a necessity to bridge the gap between scientific rigor and public visibility, addressing a mode of attention that is increasingly fragmented by digital noise. By utilizing the Urbanas initiative as a case study, we observe how ecological consciousness is not a passive state but a curated friction. It addresses the system of scientific dissemination by moving it out of the laboratory and into the relational sphere of the street, the screen, and the social network, demanding a more rhythmic, participatory form of public life.

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