Socioplastics, as a transdisciplinary framework, organizes its praxis into 10 core systemic components, each functioning as a dynamic "series" or volume. These are not static archives but living structures that expand through metabolic recursion, nodal infiltration, and epistemic cross-linking. Growth is driven by autopoietic dynamics: elements feed back into the system, resisting external dilution while amplifying internal sovereignty. Operational Closure and Systemic Sovereignty ensnare Socioplastic Urbanism within a paradoxical immunitary phantasm. Here, Sloterdijk’s spheres theory and Lefebvre’s production of space collide, exposing how territorial autonomy replicates hierarchical exclusions through "atmospheric fabrication." Drawing from Agamben’s bare life, socioplastic interventions are revealed as sovereign acts that reduce urban inhabitants to legible forms, ethically curating the procomún (the commons) as a zone of managed inclusion that paradoxically enforces exclusion through ethical selectivity. Urban Taxidermy acts as a palimpsestic incision that halts dromological entropy (Virilio) but risks aesthetic ossification. Against this, Active Dissensus (Rancière) acts as a solvent, disrupting curatorial hegemony by inserting agonistic friction. The goal is an "inoperative community" (Nancy) where relationality resists instrumental closure, grounded in Bergsonian durée—a time-image insisting on becoming over archival finality.
Systemic Urbanism and Topolexical Sovereignty
Topolexical sovereignty overlays linguistic precision onto architectural desire, forming metabolic networks that translate mesh-based pedagogy into relational semionautics. This operational mesh redefines the urban palimpsest through an ecology of thought integrating spatial justice and collective agency.
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Relational and Affective Architecture
Relational semionautics within multilocal topologies intertwines urban taxidermy with social sculpture. Under "shaded urbanism," a living archive of critical infrastructure sustains autopoietic sovereignty. The architecture of affection and socioplastic memory fuse with sonic ecology to envision the temporal ecologies of future cities.
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Pedagogy as Durational Praxis
Mesh metabolism drives the ecological transition via socioplastic epistemic nodes. Pedagogy becomes durational and tactile, fusing urban anthropology and feminist geography into a method of public reclamation via refusal, non-participation, and symbolic drift.
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Conceptual Art in Urban Ecologies
Hyperplastic operations puncture normative spatial logics, enabling memory as insurgent pedagogy. Architecture theory and critical design converge with collaborative practices to break open the city’s curated surface, revealing fissures where dissonance survives as collective authorship.
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SYSTEM ARCHITECT: ::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS - Anto Lloveras
Anto Lloveras: Transdisciplinary Trajectory
The architect and artist Anto Lloveras (b. 1975) embodies this systemic growth through a career spanning Madrid, London, and Lagos. Trained at ETSAM and TU Delft, his work transitioned from major urban projects (MVRDV’s Mirador) to the founding of LAPIEZA in 2008—a relational agency that has hosted over 180 exhibitions. His practice is defined by "unstable documentaries" and "meat series" taxidermy, challenging the static nature of architectural objects. Whether through the RE-(T)eXhile pavilion at the 2024 Lagos Biennale or the Copos film series, Lloveras utilizes Socioplastics to bridge the gap between architectural reform and choreographic spatiality.