The Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto should be understood as an infrastructural proposition situated within the long arc of Socioplastics.

First articulated at the I International Congress of Ecological Humanities at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2023, it does not simply invoke the lighthouse as emblem; it decomposes it into protocol. The beacon is redistributed. Illumination becomes networked. What was once a solitary vertical object at the edge of land becomes a dispersed system of care across metropolitan and planetary scales. In doing so, Anto Lloveras and E. Lorenzo reposition ecological humanities within an operational urbanism. The manifesto refuses both nostalgic monumentality and abstract planetary rhetoric. Instead, it proposes the Trans-Lighthouse as a migratory condenser—capable of embedding in voids, peripheral sites, and overlooked interstices—where signaling is not only optical but affective, metabolic, and relational.

At its core, the manifesto envisions the hundred largest global cities as nodal points in a reimagined transnational urbanity, where traditional centralized planning yields to nomadic, inclusive protocols that incorporate diverse bodies, cultural identities, affective physics, and advanced technologies.

The Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto, authored by Anto Lloveras (with E. Lorenzo), constitutes a pivotal speculative-operational text within the Socioplastics corpus, first presented as a paper titled FAROS_TRANS: The Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto at the I International Congress of Ecological Humanities at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in May 2023. Positioned at the confluence of ecological humanities, critical urbanism, and socioplastic theory, the manifesto deploys the lighthouse not as a solitary monumental beacon but as a distributed, transnational infrastructure of care, signaling, and relational repair amid civilizational crisis. It formulates a universal vision for the "TRANS-LIGHTHOUSE" as speculative literature projecting future humanity, advocating leaps of scale that forge a hybrid sensibility capable of reconciling utopian aspiration with pragmatic intervention. This hybridity bridges antagonistic poles—speculation and execution, ecology and urbanism—by reframing the planetary city network as an interconnected, dispersed body.