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    Spinoza’s concept of conatus refers to the basic striving of every thing to persevere in its own existence. In the context of urbanism, this means that cities, neighbourhoods, buildings, and communities are constantly acting to maintain and affirm their way of being. Urban tensions such as rent pressure, thermal inertia, or civic friction can be understood as expressions of this striving when different forces encounter one another, either supporting or weakening each other’s power to persist. Kevin Lynch’s cognitive maps, introduced in The Image of the City (1960), focused on how people mentally perceive and navigate urban space. He identified five key elements — paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks — and showed how these help form a clear, legible image of the city. Lynch’s work was about improving the physical environment so that it becomes easier for people to understand and move through it. His diagrams were descriptive reconstructions based on human perception and experience. Socioplastics takes a deeper and more relational approach. It combines Spinoza’s idea of conatus with a transdisciplinary matrix to reveal the invisible forces shaping urban life. Instead of mapping how the city appears to people, Socioplastics creates minimal, clear conceptual diagrams that show how spatial categories — such as rent as a displacement machine or thermal inertia — operate as active forces. These simple, logos-like diagrams make complex urban tensions and their interactions visible, turning abstract relations into readable and actionable knowledg
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