Socioplastics [2994] — PlasticAgency — The Capacity of Form to Act — Core Decalogue VI — Tome III — LAPIEZA-LAB — 2026

PlasticAgency defines form as an active agent rather than passive container. In Socioplastics, forms act: they redirect attention, organise relations, alter behaviour, and produce spatial consequence. Material arrangements are not secondary supports for meaning but operative structures with their own capacity to intervene. PlasticAgency situates artistic and architectural form as a distributed instrument of action, where objects, surfaces, installations, and spatial gestures become capable of shaping relations and producing effects. Form here is not representation. It is operational matter with agency.

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Open MIND
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2026-04-26
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20004904
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Architecture and Computational Design
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Socioplastics [2994] — PlasticAgency — The Capacity of Form to Act — Core Decalogue VI — Tome III — LAPIEZA-LAB — 2026

Anto Lloveras
Open MIND
Architecture and Computational Design
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Socioplastics [2994] — PlasticAgency — The Capacity of Form to Act — Core Decalogue VI — Tome III — LAPIEZA-LAB — 2026

Anto Lloveras
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Abstract

PlasticAgency defines form as an active agent rather than passive container. In Socioplastics, forms act: they redirect attention, organise relations, alter behaviour, and produce spatial consequence. Material arrangements are not secondary supports for meaning but operative structures with their own capacity to intervene. PlasticAgency situates artistic and architectural form as a distributed instrument of action, where objects, surfaces, installations, and spatial gestures become capable of shaping relations and producing effects. Form here is not representation. It is operational matter with agency.

Open MIND
Hospital Universitario La Paz (ES)
Openalex Percentile: Top 8%
Architecture and Computational Design
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