Nuske offers a crucial corrective to solutionist versions of transdisciplinarity. Her concept of critical capacity addresses the risk that intensified societal engagement can erode disciplinary autonomy, instrumentalise participation or subordinate research to externally defined agendas. Rather than defending separation, she proposes a situated epistemology based on process-oriented engagement and reflexive boundary work. The central idea is precise: worlds should be bridged without pretending their epistemic, normative and political differences have disappeared. Situated intervention becomes a way to engage practical problems while retaining the capacity to analyse how those problems are framed, whose values dominate and how power enters the research process. Methodologically, reflexive boundary work protects the possibility of critique inside collaboration. The paper bridges STS, sociology of science and transdisciplinary methodology by refusing the false choice between autonomy and engagement. Its strongest contribution is to define critical distance not as withdrawal but as a relational capacity exercised from within entangled research situations.
Dedeurwaerdere, T., Jahn, S. and Newig, J. (2026) ‘Governing the trade-off between the co-production of actionable knowledge and academic publishing in transdisciplinary sustainability research’, Environmental Science & Policy, 176, 104318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104318
Dedeurwaerdere, Jahn and Newig make visible a structural contradiction frequently obscured by impact rhetoric: transdisciplinary research is often expected to maximise both actionable societal knowledge and conventional academic publication, although these outputs are produced through partly competing temporalities and practices. Their survey of fifty completed European research projects shows that only a minority achieved high levels of both. Co-design of field research tends to increase actionable knowledge while potentially reducing publication output, yet intermediate levels of co-design combined with relational and reflective-normative trust can mitigate the trade-off. The paper’s conceptual force lies in treating trust not as atmosphere but as a governance mechanism that can coordinate divergent expectations. Methodologically, it turns a familiar anecdotal tension into an empirical organisational problem. The work bridges science policy, research evaluation and transdisciplinary governance by demonstrating that societal impact and academic productivity are not simply parallel targets; their compatibility depends on how research tasks, relationships and institutional incentives are designed.
Käyhkö, J., Hildén, M., Hyttinen, I. and Korhonen-Kurki, K. (2025) ‘The emerging institutionalisation of knowledge co-production in sustainability research’, Ambio, 54, pp. 1372–1385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02161-5
Käyhkö and colleagues shift attention from individual projects to the institutional fate of co-production. Their study asks what happens when practices initially developed as flexible, contextual responses begin to acquire rule-like status within research systems. Drawing on Finnish strategic research, they distinguish advanced, emerging and explorative levels of institutionalisation and contrast needs-based co-production with more transformative forms. The central insight is that durable co-production requires alignment across governance, resources, professional norms and organisational culture; repetition alone does not produce transformation. Institutionalisation is therefore ambivalent. It can stabilise collaborative practices, expand science-policy interaction and strengthen long-term capacity, but it can also normalise restricted versions of participation. Methodologically, the paper connects surveys and stakeholder interviews to institutional theory, particularly regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It bridges sustainability science and institutional sociology by showing that knowledge practices become consequential when they are embedded not only in projects but in the rules, expectations and resource structures that reproduce research itself.
Smart, P.R., Andrada, G. and Clowes, R.W. (2022) ‘Phenomenal transparency and the extended mind’, *Synthese*, 200, 335. doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03824-6.
Smart, Andrada and Clowes interrogate the intuition that an external resource becomes part of cognition only when its mediation disappears from experience. They reject phenomenal transparency as either a necessary or sufficient criterion for cognitive extension, arguing instead that transparency belongs to the circumstances under which cognitive dispositions are attributed to agents and systems. This distinction matters because a notebook, smartphone or mixed-reality device may remain perceptually conspicuous while still participating constitutively in cognition. Their conceptual operation separates phenomenological invisibility from functional integration, preventing seamlessness from becoming a metaphysical test. Theoretical attention moves from whether a tool feels external toward the mechanisms and dispositional patterns through which cognition is sustained. The paper bridges philosophy of mind, phenomenology and technology studies by showing that an interface can remain visible as an interface without ceasing to be cognitively operative. Cognitive extension therefore depends on organised participation, not on the disappearance of the support that enables it.
Falcão, P., Ashe, A. and Jones, B. (2014) ‘Virtualisation as a Tool for the Conservation of Software-Based Artworks’, paper presented at iPRES 2014.
Falcão, Ashe and Jones treat virtualisation as a way of separating the operational identity of software-based art from the ageing machine on which it originally ran. Tate’s experiments create virtual machines that encapsulate operating system and artwork software as a complete system, allowing significant properties to be compared across future technical versions. The iconic operation is functional cloning without hardware identity: a work survives by acquiring a portable computational environment that can itself be migrated again. Crucially, virtualisation is not presented as a final solution but as one step in an ongoing preservation workflow, since virtual machines also become obsolete. The paper therefore makes preservation recursive. Methodologically, conservation, collection care and information systems collaborate around test cases rather than abstract standards. The work bridges software preservation and conservation theory by showing that the relevant unit of survival may be neither file nor device but an executable configuration whose dependencies, behaviours and interfaces can be documented, encapsulated and re-instantiated.
Malone, S., Keegan, B. and Medway, D. (2026) ‘Epistemic objects and curious collectors: The revelation’, Journal of Business Research, 207, 116012. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116012.
Malone, Keegan and Medway define epistemic objects through incompleteness: their value grows because engagement never exhausts what they can reveal. Drawing on interviews with online collectors, the study distinguishes object–knowledge, object–community–object and object–temporal relations, shifting attention away from collecting as ownership or identity performance toward objects as continuing knowledge projects. The conceptual force lies in the claim that an apparently mundane object can function as a site of revelation whose significance changes through research, storytelling, comparison and circulation. Methodologically, object-focused interviews and social-media communities allow the individual thing, rather than the completed collection, to become the unit of analysis. The work bridges consumer research with epistemic-object theory and object-oriented inquiry by showing that knowledge can remain attached to a material entity while being continuously reconstructed around it. An object persists not as a stable meaning but as an unfinished relational centre whose temporal and communal life keeps its epistemic identity open.
ATTENTION AS A SPATIAL OPERATION — Architecture · Phenomenology · Media · Perception. Spatial experience is organised by sequences of attention: what is noticed first, what remains peripheral, what recurs and what disappears all affect how a situation is perceived and understood.
A Frame Changes the Landscape provides the first material test through Fredrik Lund’s wearable cardboard visors, where framing becomes a bodily operation that selects horizon, terrain and relation before any building is constructed · AuthorityFragment · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20358002 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/re-framing-horizons-fredrik-lunds.html. A Natural Window Can Teach Us How to Look provides the second through Natural Window Series, where an existing opening and its changing environmental conditions organise perception through weather, growth, terrain and material transformation · SOCIOPLASTICS-2780 · SoilCustody · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2020/07/natural-window-series.html. These works gain density across the field through LAPIEZA Label 167 · SOCIOPLASTICS-8870 · https://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.com/search/label/167; Hui — Art and Cosmotechnics · SOCIOPLASTICS-3813 · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/hui-y-2021-art-and-cosmotechnics.html; Spanish Bar 13 · SOCIOPLASTICS-7013 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ8PdIAFts; Relational Infrastructures Invisible · SOCIOPLASTICS-3243 · https://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2026/05/relational-infrastructures-invisible.html; Environmental Psychology Series · SOCIOPLASTICS-4302 · https://psicologiaambientalhoy.blogspot.com/2022/02/series.html; Affinity with Operative Genealogies · SOCIOPLASTICS-4828 · https://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com/2026/06/socioplastics-shares-profound-affinity.html; Distributed Epistemic Architecture · SOCIOPLASTICS-4878 · https://artnations.blogspot.com/2026/06/socioplastics-is-distributed-epistemic.html; The Vortex of Structural Didactics · SOCIOPLASTICS-896 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-vortex-of-structural-didactics.html; The Art Lies in Calibrated Deviation · SOCIOPLASTICS-582 · https://freshmuseum.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-art-lies-in-calibrated-deviation.html; MetadataSkin · SOCIOPLASTICS-3745 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/05/socioplastics-2905-metadataskin.html; Moving Image 088 · SOCIOPLASTICS-7713 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG0JLEBAtlg; When the Archive Finds Its Scale · SOCIOPLASTICS-8916 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/07/when-archive-finds-its-scale.html; and The Meaning of Scale · SOCIOPLASTICS-8914 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-meaning-of-scale.html. Across these returns, Fredrik Lund’s visors and Natural Window Series provide the primary evidence: the first makes selective framing explicit as a bodily and pedagogical act, while the second uses an existing spatial aperture to organise repeated observation of changing environmental conditions. The surrounding traces extend the same operation through environmental psychology, moving image, didactics, scale, metadata and invisible infrastructures, establishing attention as an active component in the construction and comparison of spatial experience.
STABLE ADDRESS FOR DISTRIBUTED WORK — Publishing · Archive · Information Design · Art. Distributed production requires stable forms of address if works are to remain returnable, comparable, citable and capable of reactivation across changing platforms.
Position Is Already an Essay provides the first material test through Positional Essays / Cuerpos Filmados, a decade-long meta-film archive connecting bodies at work across Madrid, Mexico City, Trondheim and other contexts; continuity is produced through repeated recording and longitudinal organisation rather than through a single site · VerificationRefusal · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162359 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/positional-essays-decade-of-relational.html. The Connected Subject Builds an Archive provides the second through The Digital Prosumer and YouTube Breakfast, where online accumulation makes films, lectures and recorded practices accessible, recombinable and pedagogically active outside specialist institutions · ScarcityAnticipation · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19887878 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-digital-prosumer-and-archive-of.html. These two works are reinforced across the field by Metric Sovereignty · SOCIOPLASTICS-1841 · https://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com/2026/02/metric-sovereignty.html; The Socioplastics Operator Matrix Reconfigures · SOCIOPLASTICS-1213 · https://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-socioplastics-operator-matrix.html; Precise Installation · SOCIOPLASTICS-774 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/socioplastics-installs-itself-precisely.html; Belongs to a Lineage Of · SOCIOPLASTICS-3990 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/05/socioplastics-belongs-to-lineage-of.html; Proximities and Relational Nodes · SOCIOPLASTICS-3055 · https://otracapa.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-proximities-of-socioplastics-should.html; Distributed Ontology · SOCIOPLASTICS-586 · https://eltombolo.blogspot.com/2026/02/distributed-ontology.html; From Archive to Protocol · SOCIOPLASTICS-2193 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/04/socioplastics-2193-from-archive-to.html; Urban Taxidermy 059 · SOCIOPLASTICS-8442 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgl62u8De1g; Urban Taxidermy 076 · SOCIOPLASTICS-8425 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2gu3ey9tM; The Distinction Between Fast Regimes · SOCIOPLASTICS-1291 · https://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-distinction-between-fast-regime.html; and Urban Taxidermy Absorption — Metadata as Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-169 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-socioplastic-absorption-metadata-as.html. Across these returns, Positional Essays / Cuerpos Filmados and The Digital Prosumer provide the primary evidence: one maintains continuity across dispersed bodies, cities and recordings, while the other makes distributed cultural material accessible through recurrent digital entry points. The surrounding traces extend that problem into metadata, operators, lineage, relational proximity, protocol and platform persistence, showing that distribution becomes usable knowledge only when materials retain sufficient addressability to be found again, compared and cited.
SEED MEMORY / DISTRIBUTED GROWTH
Self-Organisation and Institutional Blindness identifies a systemic operation through which local actions become distributed consequences. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. SelfMimesis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5996 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/06/socioplastics-5996-selfmimesis-core-x.html supplies the operative grammar, while Mimesis Can Measure Time and Honour — Performance · Memory · Visual Culture · WORK II-052 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2015/08/mimesistime-and-honor2015negradas.html contributes a historical practice in which repetition becomes a temporal and mnemonic device. Growth Metrics of Distributed Networks · SOCIOPLASTICS-2276 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/04/socioplastics-2276-growth-metrics-of.html and Built Distributed Networks · SOCIOPLASTICS-2081 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/04/for-project-built-through-distributed.html reopen the archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and The Word as Operative Seed · SOCIOPLASTICS-4459 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-word.html introduces living time, species, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through Morphogenesis — Growth Model · SOCIOPLASTICS-1508 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162430, while the moving-image register tests distributed action under duration, framing and movement through Open Sequence · SOCIOPLASTICS-7925 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjTdzUYw7OM. The comparison remains accountable through Blaschke, L.M. (2012), “Heutagogy and Lifelong Learning: A Review of Heutagogical Practice and Self-Determined Learning”, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 13(1), pp. 56–71. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — steel · building · latency · sound · oxidation. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: self-organisation becomes analytically legible when local repetition, distributed growth, infrastructural memory and institutional blind spots are understood as coupled effects rather than separate events. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
FLOWER TIMING / ATTENTION ECONOMY
Wall Thickness and Social Meaning identifies a spatial relation through which architecture organises bodies, resources, permissions and environmental conditions. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. WalkableWisdom supplies the operative grammar, while Two Bodies Build a Spatial Grammar — Performance · Architecture · Choreography · WORK I-021 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/double-sided-reinvents-performance.html contributes a historical practice in which bodies, proximity and built form become mutually constitutive. How Social Form Becomes Architecture · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-social-form-becomes-architecture.html and Analysis Exposes Load-Bearing Relation · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/07/analysis-exposes-load-bearing-relation.html reopen the archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and A Field Is Gardened Architecture Gives · SOCIOPLASTICS-3924 · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-field-is-gardened-architecture-gives.html introduces living time, species, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through Map Dimensioning: Measuring the Corpus as Architecture · SOCIOPLASTICS-2505 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19889238, while the moving-image register tests spatial interruption, framing and bodily passage through Spatial Interruption · SOCIOPLASTICS-7937 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWGjEVAvvL0. The comparison remains accountable through Awan, N., Schneider, T. and Till, J. (2011), Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture. Abingdon: Routledge, and Kojanić, O. (2025), “The Social Life of Resilience: From Techno-Politics to Socio-Environmental Justice”, Slovenský národopis, 73(4), pp. 533–552. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — wood · neighbourhood · decay · grain · rot. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: wall thickness becomes socially legible when material depth is read simultaneously as structure, boundary, permission, thermal condition and distributed agency. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
LEAF INTERFACE / CLIMATE TRANSLATION
Reuse treats existing form as an active constraint and resource, allowing new programmes to emerge through selective continuity. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. ReusePatina supplies the operative grammar, while The Factory Becomes an Urban Signal — Architecture · Adaptive Reuse · Urbanism · WORK I-003 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-trole-building-madrid-south-white.html contributes a historical practice that resists abstraction. A New Field Does Not Emerge Because · SOCIOPLASTICS-6985 · https://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-new-field-does-not-emerge-because.html and Otra Capa Socioplastics Does Not Emerge From · SOCIOPLASTICS-6698 · https://otracapa.blogspot.com/2026/07/socioplastics-does-not-emerge-from.html reopen the 10K archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and Aerial Roots of the Operative Field · SOCIOPLASTICS-8918 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/07/aerial-roots-of-operative-field.html introduces living time, species, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through TransEpistemology · SOCIOPLASTICS-999 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18999225, while the moving-image register tests the relation under duration, framing and movement through Temporal Remainder · SOCIOPLASTICS-7943 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5U8Z4GtW4. The comparison remains accountable through Eisenstein, S. (1949), Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. New York: Harcourt, and Malm, A. (2020), Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency. London: Verso. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — water · street · afterlife · temperature · circulation. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: reuse becomes analytically legible when existing form persists not as passive residue but as an active medium through which continuity, transformation and environmental afterlife are negotiated. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
BARK REGISTER / DAMAGE HISTORY
Furniture is micro-infrastructure: its placement redistributes proximity, orientation, waiting, work and social permission. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. FurnishingNerve supplies the operative grammar, while A Red Bag Can Carry Relational Infrastructure — Art · Social Practice · Urbanism · WORK I-092 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/red-bag-relational-infrastructure.html contributes a historical practice in which a portable object reorganises encounter, movement and social use. Where Are the Missing Masses? · SOCIOPLASTICS-6960 · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/07/latour-b-1992-where-are-missing-masses.html and Orientation in a Big World · SOCIOPLASTICS-8989 · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/07/reed-p-2019-orientation-in-big-world-on.html reopen the 10K archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and Aerial Roots of the Operative Field · SOCIOPLASTICS-8918 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/07/aerial-roots-of-operative-field.html introduces living time, species, attachment, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through Synthetic Infrastructure Integration Layer · SOCIOPLASTICS-1510 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162689, while the moving-image register tests proximity, pause and social spacing through Social Interval · SOCIOPLASTICS-7928 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJX6zIIFOcE. The comparison remains accountable through Pasquinelli, M. (2023), The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. London: Verso, and Hug, T. (2005), “Micro Learning and Narration”, in Proceedings of Microlearning 2005. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — brick · block · maintenance cycle · roughness · weathering. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: furnishing becomes infrastructural when small material decisions reorganise orientation, encounter, waiting and permission across scales larger than the object itself. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
CANOPY RULE / THERMAL ACCESS
Lock-in emerges when repeated choices accumulate infrastructures, expectations and dependencies that make alternatives progressively more expensive. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. PathRuts supplies the operative grammar, while Cutting Can Make the City Legible — Art · Urbanism · Taxidermy · WORK I-072 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/taxidermy-iii-cutting-city-back-to.html contributes a historical practice in which incision, exposure and selective removal make latent urban structure visible. Field Access and Core Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-2540 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/04/field-access-and-core-infrastructure.html and Memory Is Atmospheric Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-8946 · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/07/memory-is-atmospheric-infrastructure.html reopen the archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and CanopyMandate · SOCIOPLASTICS-4996 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/06/socioplastics-4996-canopymandate-core.html introduces living time, species, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through Thermal Justice · SOCIOPLASTICS-3997 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20358002, while the moving-image register tests accumulated paths, inherited trajectories and material persistence through Road to Restoration 007 — Path · SOCIOPLASTICS-6807 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDqBoxeISs. The comparison remains accountable through Berger, P.L. (1967), The Sacred Canopy. Garden City: Doubleday, and Bigo, D. (2002), “Security and Immigration”, Alternatives, 27(1), pp. 63–92. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — soil · threshold · seasonal change · pressure · infiltration. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: lock-in becomes analytically legible when repeated spatial decisions harden into infrastructures, habits and dependencies that preserve one trajectory while raising the cost of every alternative. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
Stålhammar, S. (2021) ‘Polarised views of urban biodiversity and the role of socio-cultural valuation: Lessons from Cape Town’, Ecosystem Services, 47, 101239.
Stålhammar exposes the conflict hidden inside the apparently consensual language of green infrastructure. Interviews with Cape Town practitioners reveal sharply different understandings of biodiversity, conservation, social benefit and urban green-space management. The iconic proposition is that “biodiversity” is not a self-evident planning object; its meaning changes with institutional mandate, ecological context and social valuation. In a global biodiversity hotspot, citizens’ preferences, ecosystem-service approaches and conservation priorities may collide rather than align. Methodologically, qualitative interviews are used to investigate not only values but the operational usefulness of valuation for practitioners. The wider bridge is to epistemology and governance: planning cannot simply aggregate preferences when different actors are working with different ontologies of nature. Green infrastructure becomes a negotiated category whose legitimacy depends on making these competing definitions visible rather than assuming a universal environmental good.
Ben Salem, S., Lahmar, C., Simon, M. and Szilágyi, K. (2021) ‘Green system development in the Medinas of Tunis and Marrakesh—Green heritage and urban livability’, Earth, 2(4), pp. 809–825.
Ben Salem and colleagues reconstruct green infrastructure as a historical component of the Medina rather than an external sustainability technology. Through Tunis and Marrakesh, they trace vegetal systems from medieval Islamic urbanism through colonial planning to contemporary metropolitan pressure. Gardens, palms, orchards, courtyards, street names and water systems form a cultural-ecological vocabulary embedded within dense urban morphology. The iconic contribution is the concept of green heritage: ecological infrastructure carries tangible and intangible historical values while also affecting current livability and urban climate. Methodologically, historical analysis is combined with spatial mapping and design-oriented evaluation. The bridge to architecture is unusually strong because the paper asks how nature-based solutions can be introduced without erasing inherited spatial structure. In Tunis, where green networks around the Medina remain disconnected, contemporary greening becomes a problem of morphological translation rather than generic addition.
Odhengo, P., Lutta, A.I., Osano, P. and Opiyo, R. (2024) ‘Urban green spaces in rapidly urbanizing cities: A socio-economic valuation of Nairobi City, Kenya’, Cities, 155, 105430.
Odhengo and colleagues connect Nairobi’s green spaces to use, perception, economic value and social inequality. Combining surveys, interviews and GIS analysis, the study treats green space not only as ecological provision but as a resource whose accessibility, maintenance, safety and perceived quality determine actual use. Its iconic operation is valuation across multiple registers: environmental sustainability, physical and mental wellbeing, social cohesion and willingness to invest in maintenance are made comparable without reducing the parks to monetary value alone. The study’s theoretical contribution lies in recognising that green-space benefits depend on institutional quality and unequal socio-economic conditions. Methodologically, mixed methods link spatial distribution to user experience. The bridge to public-health planning is direct: urban green spaces function as health and social infrastructure only when residents can access, trust and repeatedly use them.
The Body Registers Systemic Failure Before Theory Names It — ErrorEmbodiment - Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid · 2026
Error often becomes perceptible in the body before it becomes legible in theory. Fatigue, exclusion, imbalance, pain, hesitation, sensory overload and altered capacity can reveal failures that remain invisible inside formal descriptions of a system. ErrorEmbodiment names this conversion of systemic contradiction into bodily evidence. A mistaken assumption does not remain confined to an argument once it has entered a building, interface, workplace, protocol or routine. It becomes a distance that cannot be crossed, a posture that cannot be sustained, a timetable that exhausts, a temperature that excludes, or an instruction that presumes capacities its users do not possess. The body is therefore not merely the recipient of design but an epistemic surface on which institutional assumptions become measurable and contestable. This does not make bodily experience automatically self-explanatory; it makes it indispensable evidence. Correction requires more than acknowledging failure in language. It requires transforming the infrastructures and procedures that repeatedly reproduce the error. Embodied friction becomes a diagnostic instrument for redesigning systems from their consequences outward.
Compression Is Aesthetic Only When Compact Form Opens Perception — SensibleOpening . Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid · 2026
A strong conceptual marker condenses multiple fields into a portable, memorable form without erasing their differences. Compression becomes aesthetic when density intensifies perception rather than merely shortening information. SensibleOpening names this paradoxical condition: a compact form succeeds when it generates more possible relations than its size appears able to contain. The marker becomes a perceptual device, not simply a label. Rhythm, phonetic tension, semantic collision and controlled estrangement can make a short compound behave like a score, inviting different performances across architecture, politics, ecology, art or computation. Good compression therefore preserves an interval inside the term. It gives thought enough structure to travel while keeping interpretation unfinished. The concept distinguishes conceptual density from sloganisation. A slogan closes by making recognition immediate; an operative marker opens by making recognition productive. Its success is measured through recurrence: whether the term continues to reveal new relations when placed beside unfamiliar materials, fields and situations. Compactness becomes a form of generosity when it allows thought to move farther with less lexical mass.
The City Is Addressable—and Addressability Is Already Political — CivicPermeability - Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid · 2026
Contemporary urban space is governed through coordinates, profiles, databases, platforms, logistical systems and machine-readable records as much as through streets, plots and buildings. To be addressable is to become locatable, actionable, connectable and governable. CivicPermeability names the political condition produced by this expanded urban address system: the degree to which bodies, spaces and practices can enter public infrastructures without being completely captured by them. Addressability creates access and exposure simultaneously. A location pin can enable service delivery while intensifying surveillance; a civic profile can secure recognition while reducing identity to administrative fields. Many forms of urban life remain partially, tactically or involuntarily unaddressed. Their status reveals that publicness depends not only on visibility but on the possibility of differentiated movement between visibility and opacity. The contemporary city is therefore an interface between physical occupation and informational inscription. Civic permeability asks whether this interface still permits encounter, anonymity, refusal, improvisation and contestation, or whether every opening is converted into governability. The politics of the city increasingly resides in how addressability is designed.
Education Becomes Radical When Knowledge Can Be Traversed and Recomposed — WalkableWisdom - Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid · 2026
Learning is not the passive reception of finished knowledge but participation in the construction of distinctions through movement, contact, observation, comparison and collective testing. WalkableWisdom names a form of knowledge that unfolds sequentially through situated passage. The learner does not receive a total image at once; understanding develops through encounter, fatigue, orientation, error, return and changing perspective. A street, archive, garden, workshop, exhibition or field site can become pedagogical when it allows concepts to be tested against material conditions and recomposed through experience. Walking is therefore both literal and methodological: it describes knowledge that remains traversable rather than sealed inside disciplinary containers. Radical education emerges when learners can enter the architecture of an argument, inspect how its distinctions were produced and reorganise them through use. Rigour does not disappear; it relocates inside active inquiry, comparison and accountable transformation. Knowledge becomes durable because it has been inhabited rather than merely received. Education then shifts from transmission toward the construction of environments in which thought can move.
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