Urban phenomena exceed disciplinary boundaries: microclimatic heat is simultaneously an atmospheric measurement, an architectural condition and a form of unequal bodily exposure. Yet conventional interdisciplinarity often assembles experts without testing whether they are examining the same research object. Drawing on Haraway and Stengers, an infrastructure of accountable disagreement should require each method to declare its exclusions and record moments when contrary evidence forces revision. If sensors indicate tolerable temperatures while residents report severe nocturnal heat, testimony should not be dismissed as error. Instead, the object must expand to include indoor retention, immobility, energy poverty and tenancy conditions. The protocol is therefore falsifiable: transdisciplinarity has failed whenever no discipline alters what it accepts as legitimate evidence. Urban knowledge becomes accountable not through consensus, but through traceable institutional transformation. Lloveras, A. (2026) TransEpistemology. LAPIEZA-LAB. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18999225.
The emergence of a new field is determined neither by velocity nor by volumetric diffusion but by the stabilisation of a portable triad—ontology, epistemology and methodology interlocked such that others may inhabit them without dependence upon their originator. If Socioplastics already articulates an ontology of discursive curvature, an epistemology of infrastructural detection, and a methodology of ring stratification and mass analysis, then its task is disciplined clarification rather than acceleration. Speed may amplify visibility, yet durability arises from reproducibility, teachability and falsifiability. Transdisciplinarity succeeds not by hovering above disciplines but by supplying instruments capable of insertion within them: operators that urban theorists, STS scholars or media analysts can deploy without rhetorical allegiance. Cybernetics and digital humanities consolidated precisely because their procedures travelled; their vocabularies reorganised inquiry through operational utility. Contemporary infrastructures—blogs, repositories, algorithmic visibility—function as accelerants, not foundations. The foundation remains conceptual precision and procedural transparency: clearly delimited ontological claims, explicit epistemic criteria, and methodological techniques open to critique and adaptation. A field stabilises when its instruments solve persistent analytical problems more elegantly than existing frameworks and when its findings accumulate across heterogeneous applications. Ethical dissemination and terminological coherence protect this portability, preventing semantic drift while encouraging collaborative extension. Thus the measure of Socioplastics’ viability is not the rapidity of its propagation but the degree to which its operators generate explanatory surplus independent of their provenance. Only when others can teach, test and transform its grammar does infrastructural clarity crystallise into durable disciplinary presence.