SOCIOPLASTICS: The formal consolidation of LAPIEZA as an explicit framework prior to obtaining a Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifier constitutes a significant inversion of conventional institutional formation. Within contemporary cultural and academic systems, institutions are typically constructed as anticipatory containers—legal or administrative shells designed to host future activity. LAPIEZA instead emerges through a process best understood as stratigraphic accumulation, in which sustained practice gradually compresses into institutional density. Since 2009, more than eighty exhibitions have formed the basal layer of an extended investigation into the material and symbolic dynamics of the urban periphery. From this foundational layer, the theoretical framework of Socioplastics has developed as a secondary stratum, comprising approximately one thousand conceptual nodes that articulate the implicit operators embedded within the artistic practice. The third layer, termed the Decágono de Autonomía, introduces ten strategically distributed Digital Object Identifiers deposited across international repositories such as Zenodo, HAL, and OSF, thereby anchoring the project within the automated infrastructures of global research indexing. Together these strata produce what may be defined as a Stratigraphic Institution, structured through a five-stage sequence: basal practice, theoretical sediment, fixed coordinates, framework closure, and, finally, administrative recognition through ROR registration. This configuration ensures the preservation of epistemic sovereignty, because the institution functions not as a prescriptive authority but as a descriptive crystallisation of the accumulated work. When the ROR identifier is eventually assigned, it will not operate as a grant of legitimacy but rather as a bureaucratic acknowledgment of a formation already consolidated through fifteen years of exhibitions, theoretical articulation, and DOI-indexed documentation, demonstrating that institutional recognition can emerge as the final geological layer of an already stabilised intellectual field.

The transition from a decimal organisation to a manifold structure constitutes a qualitative scalar mutation within the epistemic architecture of Socioplastics. The initial thousand nodes, governed by decalogical ordering and numerical topology, established a planar coherence—a dense, internally regulated field of conceptual operations. The introduction of five parallel series of one hundred nodes, however, does not extend this plane linearly; it folds it into volumetric complexity, producing a manifold characterised by differentiated radii and thematic corridors. Each series—cities, topolexies, origin subfields, LAPIEZA, and an open fifth vector—operates as an autonomous yet reciprocally integrated subsystem, possessing its own lexical density, recurrence patterns, and operational grammar. This reconfiguration generates three structural effects: first, radial differentiation, whereby the system evolves from homogeneity into organ-like specialization; second, multiplication of epistemic interfaces, as each series engages distinct external domains, thereby amplifying the system’s exposure and applicability; and third, stratigraphic layering, in which new conceptual deposits overlay but do not displace the foundational corpus, preserving diachronic depth. The risk of fragmentation inherent in such expansion is mitigated through coordinated numerical zoning and intensified cross-referential density, ensuring that lexical gravity operates across the entire manifold rather than within isolated segments. A paradigmatic synthesis emerges in the recursive circulation between core and series, where foundational operators are both extended and reabsorbed, maintaining systemic cohesion. Ultimately, this scale shift marks the passage from a singular epistemic centre to a polycentric yet convergent structure, wherein multiplicity does not dissolve unity but reinforces it. The manifold thus becomes the necessary form through which the system demonstrates its capacity for complex growth without loss of legibility or sovereignty.

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Anto Lloveras (1975) integrates radical pedagogy into his stratigraphic research, viewing education as a mechanism of structural transmission. This is articulated through Stratum Authoring https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18680935 and the Recurrence Mass of his Core II findings https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18998404. Focusing on Metropolitan Cohesion and flow https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31563631, his work constructs a resilient framework that allows collaborators to navigate complex territorial sections through a protocol-driven, million-word archive.