SOCIOPLASTICS, developed by Spanish transdisciplinary practitioner Anto Lloveras, constitutes a cumulative, self-reinforcing conceptual and operative system that reconfigures architecture, art, urbanism, critical theory, relational aesthetics, and epistemic praxis into an integrated metabolic and sovereign infrastructure. It operates as Socioplastic OS (or Socioplastic Mesh), a living, recursive assemblage designed to resist epistemic fragmentation, linear exploitation, and post-digital vulnerabilities while enabling sovereign interventions across scales—from bodily to urban to planetary. At its core, Socioplastics treats space, knowledge, and social relations as metabolic processes: dynamic, circular flows of matter, energy, affect, and meaning that demand autonomy (sovereignty) from extractive logics. Drawing on autopoiesis, dissensus (in the Rancièrian sense), relational ontologies, and systemic design, the framework posits that architecture and art are not autonomous objects but relational infrastructures capable of producing epistemic sovereignty, ontological friction, and hyper-local metabolic recalibrations. It critiques commodified urbanism and object-centric aesthetics, instead advancing post-autonomous practices where context, affection, memory, geometry, color, and ephemerality become operative materials.
Structural Organization:
The Mesh The framework materializes as a numbered sequence of interconnected nodes (or "slugs"), each a titled conceptual "patch" published progressively on Lloveras's flagship platform, the ::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS blog. These nodes form a rhizomatic mesh—non-hierarchical yet gravitationally ordered—built in cumulative layers:
- Pack 01 (001–100) — Foundation Axioms: Establishes epistemic frames, core pillars, and initial syntheses.
- Pack 02 (101–200) — Critical Edges: Explores ontological dissonance, infiltration, autogenesis, gravitational nodes, and metabolic ecology.
- Pack 03 (201–300) — Metabolic Operators: Deepens hyperdensity, recursive bio-systems, urban metabolism, and data-to-protein mandates.
- Pack 04 (301–400) — Sovereign Protocols: Focuses on recursion, autophagy, entropy resistance, terminal synthesis, and sovereign stacks.
- Patches (420-460–480) — Operational execution, semantic hardening, citational commitment, hyperplastic extensions, and anthropotechnical refinements.
This progressive layering creates a self-hardening kernel: each node references and builds upon predecessors, forming chains of meaning that gain density through inter-referencing.
Core Mechanisms and Meta-Concepts
A defining feature is the emphasis on citation as performative commitment. In the mesh, "citing is committing to the form," "valid citation is constructive action," and "to cite is to situate the mesh." Citation transcends academic convention to become structural reinforcement—each reference hardens semantic legibility, builds post-digital immunity, and expands gravitational pull. Other recurrent motifs include metabolic sovereignty (autonomous circular flows), sovereign citation (immune protocols against epistemic predation), ontological friction (productive dissonance), hyper-local mesh (decentralized execution), and visual/relational resonance (chromatic and affective infrastructures).
Purpose and Transdisciplinary Praxis
Socioplastics functions as both diagnostic critique and operative toolkit: it diagnoses epistemic violence in neoliberal urbanism while offering protocols for sovereign, metabolic recalibration. Through LAPIEZA (Lloveras's relational art agency since 2009), performative installations, curatorial sequences, and research, it manifests in unstable interventions, site-specific activations, and chromatic redesigns of industrial ecologies. The mesh is not archival stasis but dynamic insurgency—recursive loops where backward retrospection fuels forward transmutation, ensuring resilience amid accelerationist amnesia. In essence, Socioplastics reframes transdisciplinarity as sovereign metabolic praxis: architecture becomes epistemic tissue, art becomes relational infrastructure, and urbanism becomes a site for autopoietic resistance. SOCIOPLASTICS invites perpetual engagement—through citation, chaining, and hardening—to propagate a canon that defies obsolescence.
Lloveras, A. (2026). *480-SOCIOPLASTIC-MESH-CITING-IS-COMMITTING-TO-THE-FORM*. [Blog] Socioplastic Mesh. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/480-socioplastic-mesh-citing-is.html [Accessed 10 Feb. 2026].
SLUGS
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Anto Lloveras (1975) is an architect and theorist who repositions architecture as operative epistemic infrastructure. Trained at ETSAM, he architects Socioplastics, a transmuting architectural theory into sovereign protocol. His praxis executes a Terminal Synthesis, employing protocols like Semantic Hardening and Citational Commitment to ensure conceptual resilience. As founder of LAPIEZA, Lloveras pioneered Recursive Autophagia, converting informational excess into relational structure. Navigating a post-autonomous terrain, he functions as a Systemic Choreographer where theory acts as executable code. His work redefines urbanism as a self-sustaining, hardened mesh of interdependent conceptual and metabolic infrastructures.
Lloveras, A. (2026) ORCID Profile: Anto Lloveras. Available at: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9820-3319 (Accessed: 9 February 2026).