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The research aims to explore how to reframe urban history as an editable, dynamic process through Stratigraphic authoring.

February 20, 2026Open Access

socioplastics-504-stratumauthoring-urban-palimpsest

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The research aims to explore how to reframe urban history as an editable, dynamic process through Stratigraphic authoring.
Analyzes the concept of StratumAuthoring to interpret city layers
Utilizes techniques of heritage conservation and forensic architecture
Investigates the impact of selective amplification over demolition
Demonstrates over 10% continuity of operable historical layers
Shows that buildings can act as layers in an urban manuscript
Suggests that urban regeneration can maintain historical memory without erasure

Abstract

socioplastics-504-stratumauthoring-urban-palimpsest * The city as editable deep-time manuscript / history reconceived as operative syntax, not static memory / StratumAuthoring maps/reads/updates stratigraphic layers without erasure (rejecting tabula rasa) / buildings become strata / past functions as infrastructural a priori / selective amplification replaces demolition (ProteolyticTransmutation) / deployment: heritage conservation, forensic architecture, urban regeneration / validation: ≥10% continuity of historical layers rendered operable / license: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 / Anto Lloveras is a transdisciplinary architect and theorist working at the intersection of art, infrastructure, and semantic systems. / citation: Lloveras, A. (v2.2.0). Socioplastics 504 — StratumAuthoring: Urban Palimpsest. LAPIEZA. Madrid. https://antolloveras.blogspot.com

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