Socioplastics, advances a demanding proposition: artistic research must cease awaiting institutional confirmation and instead become a self-architecting epistemic infrastructure. Its originality lies in treating the corpus and the city as mutually plastic metabolisms, where knowledge does not merely represent social form but actively stabilises, redirects, and hardens it. The framework’s decisive operator is soft ontology, a calibrated gradient between a dense nucleus of protocols, semantic anchors, and citational invariants, and a porous periphery capable of absorbing mutation without surrendering identity. This architecture is navigated through diagonal reading, which replaces linear mastery and statistical abstraction with oblique movement across recurrence, density, and conceptual gravity. A specific synthesis appears in the project’s progression from ephemeral scent and leaf interventions to DOI-stratified repositories, Hugging Face datasets, and distributed archival spines: here, the material trace of transient agency becomes durable epistemic machinery. Through latency dividend, the long interval before recognition is recast as the protected time in which the field consolidates against algorithmic capture; through scalar grammar, accumulation becomes traversable rather than chaotic; through citational commitment, reference becomes construction rather than retrospective validation. Consequently, Socioplastics does not present another theory of the social but enacts a portable grammar for field-building, enabling contemporary practice to endure accelerated fragmentation by designing the very forms through which reality becomes legible.

Socioplastics, proposes that knowledge fields are not born from isolated conceptual rupture but from the patient accumulation of protocols, densities, and navigable forms. Its ten structural nodes operate as a transferable architecture for transforming dispersed artistic research into sovereign epistemic infrastructure. Soft Ontology establishes the field’s gradient of commitment, hardening a nucleus of stable protocols while preserving a plastic periphery for mutation; Diagonal Reading then supplies the method by which such density becomes traversable without false mastery. Scalar Grammar ensures that meaning remains coherent from node to corpus, while Epistemic Latency revalues the interval before recognition as a period of structural maturation rather than obscurity. A specific synthesis appears in the movement from material works such as urban installations and the Blue Pants series towards DOI-anchored nodes, datasets, indexes, and machine-readable archives: here, Plastic Agency converts aesthetic action into durable knowledge architecture. Citational Commitment and Legibility Infrastructure further transform citation, metadata, and indexing into active engines of self-validation, resisting platform decay and institutional dependence. Extended through Metabolic Urbanism, the city becomes not a container but a knowledge-producing tissue of flows, thresholds, and assemblies. Finally, Expansion Risk and Autonomous Formation define the project’s political intelligence: growth must be governed, and legitimacy must arise from internal coherence. Thus, Socioplastics does not merely theorise autonomy; it designs the conditions under which autonomy can persist.