FrictionalMetropolis positions urban conflict as the primary engine of contemporary research. Cities do not produce knowledge through harmony but through pressure: displacement, congestion, asymmetry, infrastructural tension, and contested access. In Socioplastics, metropolitan space is read as a field of friction where conflict generates legibility. Urban pressure reveals the forces that organise territory, distribute visibility, and shape political form. Friction is not noise within the city; it is the condition through which the city becomes readable as structure. Research begins where spatial conflict becomes epistemic evidence.