URBANAS, under the direction of Paula Lloveras and Anto Lloveras, consolidates itself as the spatial arm of the Socioplastics mesh: not a conventional atelier, but a sovereign epistemic infrastructure embedded within the urban field. Conceived as an international research practice, it activates the city as a low-energy yet methodologically rigorous matrix wherein narrative, design, and fieldwork converge into systemic choreography. In deliberate counterpoint to algorithmic entropy that reduces planning to data logistics, URBANAS deploys Transurbanism and Critical Spatial Investigation to stabilise meaning amid territorial flux, reframing practice as a mode of epistemic governance. Advancing Relational Urbanism, the practice interrogates the friction between planetary infrastructures and human-centred nodes, aligning with the distributed ethos of social sculpture foregrounded by
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This protocol delineates URBANAS, led by Paula Lloveras and Anto Lloveras, as the specialised spatial branch of the Socioplastics mesh, an international research praxis wherein the city is activated as analytical framework and experimental crucible. Here, design, narrative, and fieldwork intersect within a disciplined matrix of Active Transurbanism, enabling the recalibration of infrastructures, bodies, and territorial morphologies through Critical Spatial Investigation. Rejecting the reductive logics of municipal technocracy, URBANAS advances Relational Urbanism to interrogate the frictions between planetary systems and human-centric nodes, translating global abstraction into civic intelligibility. From the fjord-connected imaginaries of NTNU City Campus 2050 to the sustainable neighbourhood manifesto of El Palmeral, the practice reconstitutes the urban grid as Therapeutic Landscape, grounding the systemic logic of Socioplastics in materially verifiable interventions. Through this operationalisation, territorial data are transmuted into Sovereign Inhabitation, where civic presence is neither decorative nor residual but structurally encoded. The city becomes a Rhizomatic Laboratory, testing the elasticity of public space and collective memory, a trajectory extended through initiatives such as the International Congress of Ecological Humanities and crystallised in the speculative construct of the Fifth City, wherein architecture functions as Ecological Interface. Central to this doctrine is Microscale Green Infrastructure, whose disciplined modulation of therapeutic voids demonstrates that metropolitan restoration proceeds through granular recalibration rather than monumental expansion. URBANAS thus reclaims the Right to Urban Meaning, positioning architect and theorist as Co-Governors of Presence within a living, inclusive, and recursively sustainable mesh.