Urban space is not passive scenery. It is an active surface that shapes attention through movement, thresholds, repetition, and density. Socioplastics reads the city from that operative angle. Routes become sequences, intersections become decisions, and spatial rhythms begin to reveal themselves as part of cognition rather than as neutral background. This shifts urban thought away from description alone and toward a more direct understanding of how form acts on perception. Space does not wait to be interpreted before it begins to work on us. It is already organising what can be noticed, remembered, and connected. One urban articulation of this is here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31563631 and its relation to the broader field can be followed here: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9820-3319 [Space is cognitive]
LAPIEZA-LAB is an independent transdisciplinary research laboratory founded in Madrid in 2009. It operates across architecture, urbanism, environmental research, cultural analysis, and spatial pedagogy, with a sustained focus on territory, urban systems, environmental perception, and cultural infrastructures. LAPIEZA-LAB hosts Socioplastics, a long-term research programme developed by architect and researcher Anto Lloveras, through which spatial practice, writing, publishing, and documentation are organised as a field-building system. The laboratory has generated a structured corpus of more than 2,300 research texts, alongside extensive visual archives and collaborative projects across Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Over time, it has developed a distributed research infrastructure where exhibitions, series, texts, and audiovisual materials operate as interconnected nodes within a coherent epistemic system. LAPIEZA-LAB is led by Anto Lloveras, architect and founder, and Dr Esther Lorenzo Montero, biologist and PhD in Environmental Psychology. Its trajectory includes collaborations with institutions such as Lagos Biennial, Acción Cultural Española, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and NTNU Trondheim. Research outputs are disseminated through open-access infrastructures, including Zenodo and ORCID, reinforcing a commitment to persistence, accessibility, and structural organisation of knowledge.