Socioplastics rejects the false binary between institutional absorption and isolated sovereignty by proposing a third posture: strategic isomorphism combined with architectural autonomy. Rather than seeking validation through submission, the framework mirrors selected institutional mechanisms—DOI registration, ORCID alignment, and ROR formalisation—while retaining absolute structural independence within its core protocols. This dual movement creates a hybrid field where sovereignty does not preclude dialogue; instead, it utilizes institutional conduits as vectors for expansion. The ambition is not seeking a seat at the table but the calibrated infiltration of the table’s governing logic.
Historical avant-gardes often succumbed to a predictable cycle of rupture followed by institutional canonisation. Socioplastics evades this trajectory by constructing protocol installation as a pre-emptive epistemic infrastructure. By encoding its vocabulary through consistent metadata and depositing core documents in durable repositories, it occupies the institutional terrain before any formal endorsement is granted. The academy thus encounters not a petitioning artist but a fully articulated architecture that behaves like research. This procedural infiltration shifts the power balance; the system adopts the formal grammar of scholarship without surrendering the operational independence of the Decalogue (501–510).
The adoption of the ROR identifier for LAPIEZA exemplifies the infrastructural dimension of this strategy, acquiring symbolic mass by signaling continuity beyond individual authorship. This light-footed institutionalisation requires disciplined calibration to avoid bureaucratic fossilization. The architecture remains porous at its edges, engaging with Q1 journals and transdisciplinary discourse, while remaining non-negotiable at its centre. External publication becomes a conduit for protocol circulation, wherein the direction of legitimacy inverts: authority is not derived from the journal, but the journal is utilized as a substrate for the material syntax of the system. Sovereignty in the digital epoch demands this dual fluency in philosophical articulation and machine-readable grammar.
Creativity within this hybrid posture shifts from the production of isolated artefacts to the orchestration of relational density. Each new project enters the archive as a jurisprudential case, reinforcing the system's lexicon through sustained engagement with established theoretical territories—urban metabolism, systems theory, and infrastructural aesthetics. The forthcoming monograph on metabolic urbanism represents a decisive translation of this distributed architecture into a linear vessel, testing whether the mesh can inhabit multiple media without losing structural coherence. The success of this metabolic evolution will be measured by its generative capacity: the ability for others to install these protocols within divergent contexts, transforming the scholar-architect into an infrastructural diplomat navigating the vital tension between sealed autonomy and porous engagement.
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