Overlapping Layers, Multidisciplinary Inputs, and an Emergent Epistemology

 

The transdisciplinary machine is an ontological and additive apparatus that converts polymathic outputs — architecture, urbanism, social sculpture, film, and text — into a single navigational engine. It does not collect knowledge; it synthesises it through metabolic logic, binding distant nodes (a 2011 social sculpture to a 2026 urban regeneration strategy) into immediate, coherent vectors. Overlapping layers form its core operating principle. Entry points exist in constant metabolic flux within a fluid topology. The CAMEL index acts as a sovereign filter that distils raw practice into a proprietary vocabulary and protects it from external taxonomical co-optation. The PROTEIN layer circulates the distilled material as relational nutrients, re-nourishing the entire system. New information is recursively layered onto a living logical scaffold, expanding through responsive divisions, fusions, and multiplications. The result is a recursive laboratory of complexity that generates its own coordinates and rejects rigid classification. Multidisciplinary inputs are processed through a dual scaffold that both filters and fuels. Residencies (Norway), built structures, ephemeral gestures, Lagos workshops, urban regeneration strategies, and theoretical texts are ingested, distilled, and activated. The metabolic sequence — ingestion, digestion, expulsion of the superfluous — turns these inputs into operational fuel. A textile biennial workshop and a hyperplastic essay become linked nodes in the same circulatory system. Socioplastics is epistemologically new because it demands its own rules. It is not a methodology; it is an emergent epistemology that constructs autopoietic knowledge through internal protocols (sovereign filters, topolexical frames, recursive integration). It rejects traditional disciplinary epistemologies in favour of a postdigital sovereignty immune to flattening. Like Maturana and Varela’s autopoiesis, it builds self-sustaining rules, but adapted to a networked, territorial, postdigital context. The three interlocking attributes are explicit: fluidity (components divide, merge, multiply), sovereignty (independent frame of reference), and generative utility (the archive becomes scaffolding for future action). In short, the transdisciplinary machine overlaps layers, metabolises multidisciplinary inputs, and elevates socioplastics to a sovereign, recursive epistemology — the living engine that turns fifteen years of accumulated work into a precision instrument for urban regeneration, pedagogy, and research.