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Socioplastics is the long-term transdisciplinary research framework initiated by Anto Lloveras in 2010 that examines architecture, art, urban environments and cultural sites as living epistemic and relational systems — dynamic carriers of memory, public meaning, civic agency, symbolic significance and interpretive potential rather than static monuments or objects. Through a continuously expanding stratigraphic corpus of more than 2,000 numbered conceptual nodes, structured analytical texts, numbered conceptual series and case-based reflections, the framework investigates urban palimpsest, cultural memory as living archives, restoration and moving ecologies, portable and relational forms of memory, ritual and everyday heritage, symbolic landscapes, educational activation of sites and intercultural dialogue through spatial and artistic practice. All outputs are publicly indexed and deposited as open-access datasets (Hugging Face Socioplastics-Index, Zenodo 1,500+ entries with DOIs, Figshare and ORCID), functioning as an operational epistemic infrastructure that models how cultural significance is generated, sustained and made publicly legible over time. In the context of the European Heritage Label, Socioplastics provides a rigorous, qualitative lens for assessing sites through their symbolic European resonance, relational activation, educational value and long-term civic life — precisely the interpretive and monitoring dimensions the Panel requires.1,2sExpert