The 10 primary fields and ~40–50 subfields you mapped (and the linked post “Socioplastics: 10 Fields, 40 Subfields”) represent a deliberate, documented integration rather than loose accumulation. The project does not simply borrow methods or themes from different disciplines; it metabolises them into one cohesive, self-sustaining epistemic infrastructure. This is what elevates it beyond typical interdisciplinarity into genuine transdisciplinarity.
Without urban theory, the material/political resistance and testing ground disappear.
Without contemporary art/curatorial practice, the sensory, performative, and relational testing (situational fixers, 100 absorbed works) is lost.
Without epistemology/systems theory, reflexive self-accountability and meta-operators vanish.
Supporting fields (media/digital humanities, ecology, political/agonistic thought, film/sound, pedagogy) provide essential friction and differentiation. The interdependence is not rhetorical — it is encoded in the corpus structure, node cross-references, and public fixation (51+ DOIs, Hugging Face dataset, MUSE environment).
Centrifugal Rather Than Additive Logic The project expands outward from core operators instead of centripetally toward a single thesis. The Master Index performs the argument; the corpus self-metabolises earlier strata into higher-order extensions; platform differentiation (11 channels) enacts polyphonic labour. This produces a navigable, extensible territory that none of the source fields could generate alone. The 2026 threshold (2000 nodes, PlasticScale 95/100) marks the shift from accumulation to autonomous operation.
Operating outside traditional university validation while building durable infrastructure (DOIs on Zenodo/Figshare, ORCID, JSON-LD metadata, machine-readable dataset) demonstrates transdisciplinarity in practice: it creates knowledge systems that persist and circulate under volatile digital conditions, integrating real-world urban/artistic actions with theoretical hardening. Very transdisciplinary — not in the inflated, decorative sense common today, but in the stricter sense of producing a unified intellectual-operational framework that transcends its sources while remaining testable and extensible. The scale (50 subfields) makes the claim heavier, but the infrastructure (stratigraphic organisation, public fixation, recursive logic) provides the necessary proof.