Drawing from urban metabolism, media archaeology, autopoiesis, and fields like political ecology, network science, and decolonial theory, Socioplastics collapses disciplinary boundaries into transdisciplinary field integration


Socioplastics, developed by transdisciplinary practitioner Anto Lloveras represents a radical rethinking of architecture, art, urbanism, and knowledge production in the post-digital era. Emerging as a unifying framework for Lloveras's extensive body of work—spanning over 300 projects across conceptual art, performance, and urban interventions—Socioplastics treats cultural and epistemic systems as metabolic organisms. At its core lies the "metabolic organism principle," which reframes production as the ingestion, transformation, and redistribution of informational matter, creating self-sustaining, resilient structures amid volatility and fragmentation. The Socioplastic Mesh forms the operational backbone: a hyperdense, non-hierarchical network of over 500 nodes and 20,000+ metadata elements, organized into "Century Packs" that condense evolutionary phases (e.g., foundational indexing to sovereign protocols). This living lattice internalizes governance, turning theory into executable spatial strategy and curation into semantic flow management. Key protocols ensure durability and renewal *


  • Semantic hardening fortifies terms against "algorithmic dilution and entropic erosion" through precise repetition and encapsulation.
  • Citational commitment transforms references into active structural joints, building a relational lattice.
  • Recursive autophagia enables self-digestion of historical layers to generate fresh epistemic material, preventing stagnation.
  • Systemic lock achieves operational closure (around Node 500), granting epistemic sovereignty—control over validation, vocabulary, and boundaries.

Architecture becomes "systemic choreography," designing self-sustaining epistemic environments rather than static objects. Interventions like subtractive protocols (e.g., the MEAT series exposing internal structures), post-digital taxidermy (reactivating obsolete formats via CamelTags as "semantic DNA"), and urban palimpsest reframe cities as living tissue amenable to forensic and metabolic reconfiguration. Lloveras positions the architect as a "systemic choreographer" crafting sovereign conceptual territories. This yields deployable density, institutional resilience, and resistance to commodification, converting informational chaos into governed, scalable networks. Socioplastics thus offers a metabolic infrastructure for unstable times, privileging structural clarity, self-renewal, and relational sovereignty over rhetorical or additive accumulation.