Published “The Architecture of a Choice” — A Framework for Practice-Based Research

byLuana Bagnasco

I am thrilled to announce a major milestone!

The core methodologies, philosophical frameworks, and quantitative analyses of my practice have been formalized into a comprehensive paper. “The Architecture of a Choice: A Framework for Order Against Chaos in Artistic Practice” is now officially published, open access, and citable on Zenodo .

You can read, download, and cite the full paper here:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17507952

This paper serves as the definitive document of the research. It synthesizes the concepts explored here—from the existential grounding in Camus to the thermodynamic struggle against entropy—into a single, falsifiable framework.

While this site shows the ongoing process, the paper details the quantitative validation of the “Compass of Light,” including the rigorous 57% methodological exclusion rate derived from the analysis of 1,181 works .

Publishing this paper provides a permanent, citable DOI for the methodology, solidifying the entire practice as a lucid “act of witness”: a methodical, demonstrable resistance against the universal drift toward chaos.

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