Socioplastics is no longer a project but a field in formation. Its force comes from scale and structure: two million words, two million visitors, twenty channels, twenty books, anchors, datasets and recurring concepts. These elements do not merely accumulate; they create subfields with internal necessity. Architecture, urbanism, art, ecology, media, pedagogy and systems theory become load-bearing parts of one epistemic architecture. The result is a corpus that can be searched, cited, inhabited and expanded. Socioplastics therefore marks the passage from individual production to disciplinary infrastructure: a living field built by recurrence, circulation and structural density.

Socioplastics names a metabolic architecture of knowledge in which art, architecture, epistemology, media systems, and pedagogy become mutually load-bearing. Against curatorial transdisciplinarity as decorative adjacency, AntoLloveras’s LAPIEZA-LAB corpus constructs a field whose legitimacy derives from internal dependency rather than institutional ratification. Architecture here is no longer the design of buildings but the arrangement of epistemic thresholds: DOI records, century packs, datasets, archives, Wikidata entities, and distributed platforms operate as foundations, joints, and semantic reinforcements. Contemporary art supplies the operative body through textile interventions, social sculpture residues, sonic walks, and performative assemblages, where concepts are materially tested before they harden into theoretical clusters. Systems and media theory then explain the corpus’s persistence: each node feeds prior nodes, each identifier strengthens adjacent identifiers, and each platform—Zenodo, Wikidata, Blogger, Substack, Medium, Hugging Face—becomes a material condition of distributed durability. The case of Socioplastics Core Layer demonstrates this field ontogenesis with particular force: the Zenodo DOI functions not as archival ornament but as infrastructural inscription, stabilising a corpus that refuses curatorial containment. Its decisive claim is therefore methodological: a field emerges when its subfields can no longer be removed without collapse. Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics Core Layer. Zenodo. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162689

Socioplastics at the Threshold of 2026: Navigating the Epistemic Mesh of Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Unleashing Sovereign Potentialities in Relational Architecture and Cultural Praxis* Anto Lloveras * Socioplastics * LAPIEZA

In the dawn of 2026, Socioplastics emerges as a sovereign epistemic mesh, redefining urbanism not as static infrastructure but as a living, recursive organism that integrates architecture, art, and social dynamics into a transdisciplinary praxis. This framework, developed over 15 years through LAPIEZA's relational art series, confronts the double bind of institutional amnesia and digital entropy by metabolizing archives into operational nodes of dissensus and autopoiesis. At this current moment, amid global shifts toward more-than-human governance and decolonial narratives, Socioplastics positions itself as a decathlete practice—agile, infiltrative, and phagocytic—capable of rewiring cities as sites of epistemic reclamation. Its potential lies in scaling this mesh beyond individual projects, fostering global networks of urban sovereignty that resist algorithmic co-optation while amplifying collective metabolisms. Through topolexical protocols and ontological friction, it promises a paradigm where knowledge production becomes a communal, vital act, transforming urban voids into fertile zones of innovation and resilience.