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Border Fictions, Special Issue, Architecture and Culture

Call for Papers, live now

We are co-editing a special issue of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Architecture and Culture journal, Border Fictions which emerges from our work on the Eile Project. Priviledged to co-edit with Nat Muller and Mohamad Hafeda.

The call is live now here, with a deadline of the 30th July 2022.

The call asks the following:

What becomes of fictioning as a resistant spatial practice when it engages with nation-state borders?
How can activist, anti-colonial, critical spatial art practices open new imaginaries of borders while acknowledging the often violent lived experiences that they impose?
Is there political potential in exploring expanded framings of various and opposing forms of ‘speculative design’ - from the making to the unmaking of borders?

Taking a broad and interdisciplinary approach for this Special Issue we hope to solicit experiences from:

Contemporary global spatial art and/or architecture practices working with fictions in border contexts, however they might be defined;
Contemporary spatial activist initiatives working with fictions in border contexts, however they might be defined;
Historical and counter-historical narratives that reimagine or re-narrate border experiences.

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