SOCIOPLASTICS 2995 · MetabolicLoop
Self-Regulation and Growth
From systemic circulation to adaptive development
Author: Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB · Madrid · 2026
ORCID: 0009-0009-9820-3319
Node: 2995 · Layer: Core VI · Series: Core Decalogue VI · Tome III
Tracker: 2995-TRACKER · System ID: SOCIOPLASTICS-2026-CORE-VI-3000
Requires: 2994-PLASTICAGENCY · Precedes: 2996-CHRONODEPOSIT
Version: v1.0.0 · Date: 2026 · License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Slug: socioplastics-2995-metabolicloop
Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/20005262
Abstract
A system grows when it learns to regulate its own transformations. MetabolicLoop defines growth not as linear expansion, but as recursive circulation: the capacity of a socioplastic field to absorb inputs, process tensions, redistribute energy and recompose itself without losing structural coherence.
The loop is not repetition; it is adaptive return. Against extractive models of production, MetabolicLoop treats research, architecture, art and urban systems as living circuits. Matter, knowledge, affect, waste, attention and institutional feedback are metabolised into new operative forms.
MetabolicLoop extends Core VI by converting formal agency into systemic growth. Following PlasticAgency, it asks how active forms enter cycles of transformation, maintenance and renewal. The paper positions metabolism as a regulatory intelligence: a way for the work to continue by feeding on its own conditions.
Keywords
MetabolicLoop; Socioplastics; Anto Lloveras; LAPIEZA-LAB; Self-Regulation; Growth; Core VI; Core Decalogue VI; Tome III; Urban Metabolism; Systemic Growth; Feedback Loop; Adaptive Regulation; Circular Process; Autopoiesis; Ecological Design; Metabolic Urbanism; Recursive System; CamelTag; SemanticHardening; SystemicLock.
Protocol Order
ABSORB: identify the material, informational and affective inputs entering the system.
PROCESS: convert pressure, waste, conflict or excess into usable operative matter.
REGULATE: stabilise feedback without freezing the system’s capacity for change.
RETURN: reintroduce transformed energy into the field as renewed structure, knowledge or action.
GROW: allow the loop to expand through adaptive coherence rather than mere accumulation.
Deployment Context
Urban metabolism lab; ecological design studio; circular economy platform; research archive; pedagogical feedback system; community infrastructure; institutional learning framework; regenerative art practice.
Validation Metric
Capacity of a system to sustain adaptive growth through self-regulation: measured by feedback stability, reuse of outputs, reduction of dead matter, conceptual renewal, ecological responsiveness, institutional learning and recursive operational continuity.
Core Statement
MetabolicLoop converts growth into regulated circulation. The system does not advance by abandoning its residues, but by metabolising them. What returns is not the same: it is processed, intensified and reintroduced as new structural capacity.
Genealogical Articulation
Patrick Geddes links urban thinking to biological and ecological process. Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s general systems theory provides a framework for open systems, exchange and regulation. Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s autopoiesis clarifies how living systems reproduce their own organisation. Ilya Prigogine introduces dissipative structures as order emerging through energetic instability. John T. Lyle’s regenerative design grounds the possibility of circular growth within ecological practice. MetabolicLoop folds these genealogies into a Socioplastics protocol for recursive development.
References
Bertalanffy, L. von. (1968). General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller.
Geddes, P. (1915). Cities in Evolution. London: Williams & Norgate.
Lyle, J. T. (1994). Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development. New York: Wiley.
Maturana, H. R. and Varela, F. J. (1980). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Prigogine, I. and Stengers, I. (1984). Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature. New York: Bantam.
Autonomy Clause
Node 2995 operates as an independent executable unit within Core Decalogue VI. Its protocol remains legible in isolation while translating the formal agency of Node 2994 into recursive systemic growth. It is ecology-ready, archive-ready and interoperable within the wider Socioplastics system.
Canonical Citation
Lloveras, A. (2026). Socioplastics 2995 · MetabolicLoop: Self-Regulation and Growth (v1.0.0). LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20005262.