9 sept 2026
The decisive concept emerging from contemporary neuroarchitecture and environmental neuroscience is ecological validity: the degree to which an experimental relation survives the passage from controlled stimulus to inhabited world.
Grasso-Cladera, A., Arenas-Perez, M., Wegertseder-Martinez, P., Vilina, E., Mattoli-Sanchez, J. and Parada, F.J. (2025) ‘Neuroscientific insights into the built environment: A systematic review of empirical research on indoor environmental quality, physiological dynamics, and psychological well-being in real-life contexts’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(6), 824. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22060824.
Wei, N., Chuquichambi, E.G., Damiano, C., Bruce, K. and Walther, D.B. (2026) ‘A design-integrated framework for neuroarchitectural research’, Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1666480. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1666480.
Valentine, C. (2024) ‘The impact of architectural form on physiological stress: A systematic review’, Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1237531. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1237531.
Wang, Y., Yan, S., Xu, L., Yan, Y., Ma, D. and Han, S. (2026) ‘Virtual Reality for human-centred evaluation of underground environments: A focused review’, Buildings, 16(15), 3016. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16153016.
Attaianese, E., Barilà, M. and Perillo, M. (2025) ‘Exploring neuroscientific approaches to architecture: Design strategies of the built environment for improving human performance’, Buildings, 15(19), 3524. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15193524.
Valentine, C., Mitcheltree, H., Sjövall, I.A.K. and Khalil, M.H. (2025) ‘Architecturally mediated allostasis and neurosustainability: A proposed theoretical framework for the impact of the built environment on neurocognitive health’, Brain Sciences, 15(2), 201. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15020201.
Abbas, S., Okdeh, N., Roufayel, R., Kovacic, H., Sabatier, J.-M., Fajloun, Z. and Abi Khattar, Z. (2024) ‘Neuroarchitecture: How the perception of our surroundings impacts the brain’, Biology, 13(4), 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13040220.
5 sept 2026
Evans, J. and Jones, P. (2011) ‘The walking interview: Methodology, mobility and place’, Applied Geography, 31(2), pp. 849–858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.09.005.
Anderson, J. (2004) ‘Talking whilst walking: A geographical archaeology of knowledge’, Area, 36(3), pp. 254–261. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0004-0894.2004.00222.x.
Carpiano, R.M. (2009) ‘Come take a walk with me: The “go-along” interview as a novel method for studying the implications of place for health and well-being’, Health & Place, 15(1), pp. 263–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.05.003.
Carpiano turns the go-along into a systematic qualitative method for investigating how people interpret, navigate and inhabit local environments. Its iconic proposition is simple but epistemically consequential: the researcher accompanies participants through familiar settings so that place becomes an active component of the interview rather than a topic recalled elsewhere. Walk-alongs, ride-alongs and mixed forms allow perception, practice, memory and social interaction to be observed in situ. Carpiano positions the method between phenomenology, interactionism, ethnomethodology and relational sociology, while stressing its complementarity with field observation, sit-down interviews, photography, GIS, network analysis and focus groups. The method therefore refuses the opposition between qualitative depth and spatial precision. Its strongest operation is to convert vague “context” into an action space composed of routes, encounters, resources, obstacles and remembered meanings. The wider intellectual bridge is to situated knowledge: environmental effects become intelligible only through the practices by which subjects encounter and interpret them.
Moudon, A.V. (1997) ‘Urban morphology as an emerging interdisciplinary field’, Urban Morphology, 1, pp. 3–10.
Moudon establishes urban morphology as an interdisciplinary study of the city through form, resolution and time. Her decisive move is to treat buildings, plots, streets and open spaces not as inert components but as interdependent organisms whose uses, substitutions and transformations register social and economic forces. The article brings the Conzenian, Muratorian and Versailles traditions into a common field, showing how geography, architecture and planning can share a morphological grammar without collapsing their disciplinary differences. Methodologically, it works through nested scales—from parcel/building to street/block, city and region—and through historical transformation rather than static description. The notion of urban morphogenesis is therefore more precise than morphology alone: form becomes a record of continuous becoming. Moudon also anticipates the extension of classical morphological analysis through parcel-based GIS, thereby linking painstaking historical reconstruction to metropolitan-scale computation. The wider bridge is to an epistemology of urban form in which material configuration is both evidence and historical process.
2 sept 2026
31 ago 2026
Cerbara, L., Germani, D. and Santurro, M. (2026) ‘Ethical Implications in Building Longitudinal Data Infrastructures’, in Taddei, L. and Paolucci, M. (eds.) Longitudinal Data Infrastructures in Europe: Tools for Open Science in Social Science Research. Cham: Springer Nature, pp. 57–67. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07005-0_4
Taddei, L. and Paolucci, M. (2026) ‘Introduction’, in Taddei, L. and Paolucci, M. (eds.) Longitudinal Data Infrastructures in Europe: Tools for Open Science in Social Science Research. Cham: Springer Nature, pp. vii–x. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07005-0
30 ago 2026
Greif, H. (2017) ‘What is the extension of the extended mind?’, *Synthese*, 194, pp. 4311–4336. doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0799-9.
Hutchins, E. (2009) ‘Enaction, imagination, and insight’. Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, manuscript.
Hutchins relocates cognition from the bounded individual to systems whose properties emerge across interacting scales. A person working with an artefact, a group coordinating through technologies, or a body–brain–world assembly can accomplish cognitive operations unavailable to any isolated component. The decisive methodological principle is therefore to refuse an a priori unit of analysis: the relevant boundary must be discovered empirically according to where memory, reasoning, transformation and error correction actually occur. His examples show high-level cognition emerging from culturally orchestrated low-level processes applied to charts, inscriptions, linguistic forms and technical devices. The iconic idea is propagation: representational states move through heterogeneous media, changing form while maintaining enough structure to support an operation. Hutchins bridges cognitive science with anthropology and infrastructure studies because knowledge is shown to depend on organised environments as much as neural activity. Cognition becomes a materially and socially distributed achievement whose persistence relies on relations among bodies, signs, instruments and conventions.
March, P.L. (2019) ‘Playing with clay and the uncertainty of agency: A Material Engagement Theory perspective’, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 18, pp. 133–151.
25 ago 2026
DISCONTINUITY AS STRUCTURAL INFORMATION — Systems · Archive · Media · Epistemology
Missing links, pauses, abandoned sequences, broken formats and sudden returns can become evidence when discontinuity is retained and read rather than repaired into artificial continuity. Cadiz Can Hold an Unstable Interior provides the first material test through Cadiz 2019 Unstable Installation, where duration, bodily action and repetition generate form through actions that repeat, interrupt and remain unresolved · SOCIOPLASTICS-2717 · DesireOrientation · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2019/02/cadiz-2019unstable-insallation.html. A Palindrome Can Build Spatial Time provides the second through Palindrome, where repetition and interruption organise temporal and spatial experience without requiring a linear sequence or definitive closure · SOCIOPLASTICS-2793 · ErrorEmbodiment · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2024/10/palindrome.html. These works gain density across the field through The Field Architect Is the Figure Who Makes · SOCIOPLASTICS-3902 · https://freshmuseum.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-field-architect-is-figure-who-makes.html; Dynamics · SOCIOPLASTICS-3729 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/05/socioplastics-1509-dynamics.html; Invisible Architectures — Moral · SOCIOPLASTICS-3245 · https://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2026/05/invisible-architectures-moral.html; Star — Ethnography of Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-5983 · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/06/star-sl-1999-ethnography-of.html; Twins — Unstable Installation Series · SOCIOPLASTICS-1835 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/twins-unstable-installation-series.html; LAPIEZA-LAB Urban Interventions · SOCIOPLASTICS-5064 · https://eltombolo.blogspot.com/2026/06/lapieza-labs-urban-interventions.html; Rescue Is a Critical Operation · SOCIOPLASTICS-8928 · https://otracapa.blogspot.com/2026/07/rescue-is-critical-operation.html; Epistemic Architecture — Numerical Threshold · SOCIOPLASTICS-1078 · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/03/epistemic-architecture-numerical.html; The Inevitability of Deeper Ingestion · SOCIOPLASTICS-417 · https://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-inevitability-of-deeper-ingestion.html; Urban Taxidermy 091 · SOCIOPLASTICS-8310 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJvOJNGMwo; The Infrastructural Life of Abstraction · SOCIOPLASTICS-5987 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-infrastructural-life-of-abstraction.html; Moving Image 056 · SOCIOPLASTICS-7845 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-qQ6rc55dk; Topolexical Metabolism and the Politics of · SOCIOPLASTICS-312 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/topolexical-metabolism-and-politics-of.html; and the Anto Lloveras archive of September 2016 · SOCIOPLASTICS-6024 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2016/09. Across these returns, Cadiz 2019 Unstable Installation and Palindrome provide the primary evidence: both make interruption part of the operative structure rather than treating it as failure, and both retain unresolved temporal relations as part of what can later be examined. The surrounding traces extend the same condition through unstable installation, rescue, infrastructural gaps, moving image, numerical thresholds and archival return, establishing discontinuity as usable information in the construction of a distributed field.
23 ago 2026
PERCEPTION BEFORE STABLE VOCABULARY — Perception · Epistemology · Art · Spatial Practice. A field can become recognisable through recurring visual, material and spatial conditions before those conditions are stabilised as concepts, categories or operators.
Twilight Is an Atlas provides the first material test through The Twilight Atlas, where photographic framing isolates transitions in light, terrain and atmosphere and turns threshold conditions into comparable visual evidence · InsightViscosity · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20005262 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-twilight-atlas-triptych-logic-of.html. Light Can Be a Durational Material provides the second through the Provence durational gestures, where changing natural light, bodily persistence and modest action make duration observable through repeated environmental conditions rather than through a fixed representational scheme · WalkableWisdom · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162549 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-light-in-provence-durational.html. These works gain density across the field through He Walks Through a City He Does Not Know · SOCIOPLASTICS-1266 · https://freshmuseum.blogspot.com/2026/03/he-walks-through-city-he-does-not-know.html; Josep Selga and Urban Landscape · SOCIOPLASTICS-4322 · https://psicologiaambientalhoy.blogspot.com/2022/02/josep-selga.html; The Operational Logic of Socioplastic · SOCIOPLASTICS-1725 · https://otracapa.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-operational-logic-of-socioplastic.html; Transdisciplinary Urban Reweaving · SOCIOPLASTICS-220 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/01/reweaving-city-transdisciplinary-urban.html; On the Engineering of Epistemic Sovereignty and Flux · SOCIOPLASTICS-1235 · https://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com/2026/03/on-engineering-of-epistemic-sovereignty.html; Unified Total Body System Sync · SOCIOPLASTICS-228 · https://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-unified-socioplastic-body-global.html; Arturo Soria · SOCIOPLASTICS-2639 · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2019/09/arturo-soria.html; Urban Taxidermy 056 · SOCIOPLASTICS-8445 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssm-jRdK8yA; Autonomous Diagnostic · SOCIOPLASTICS-980 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/03/socioplastics-designates-autonomous.html; Moving Image 004 · SOCIOPLASTICS-7597 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsUMCRAa-cU; Building Tome II · SOCIOPLASTICS-1536 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/04/socioplastics-building-tome-ii.html; and the YouTube Breakfast archive of January 2022 · SOCIOPLASTICS-4673 · https://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com/2022/01. Across these returns, The Twilight Atlas and the Provence durational gestures provide the primary evidence: the first isolates recurring perceptual thresholds through photography, while the second records environmental variation through duration, light and bodily persistence. The surrounding traces extend the same condition through urban observation, moving image, diagnostic practice, bodily systems and field construction, showing how recurrent perceptual evidence can precede and later support the formation of a stable conceptual vocabulary.

