Editorial: Border Fictions

The term that this special issue is concerned with, Border Fictions, stems from the work of the independent art and spatial research practice, a place of their own (Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy) [https://aplaceoftheirown.org/] who tentatively propose border fictions as a concept, and border fictionings as a method, that enacts a critical, politicised, and transdisciplinary exploration of the histories, narratives, spaces, potentials of fictions/ings as a resistant praxis with which to challenge the naturalization of nation-state borders. Editing this special issue of Architecture and Culture presented us with the opportunity to critically interrogate this experimental thinking both with a range of thinkers and writers (the authors) and with new collaborators (other editors). We were grateful that Dr Mohamad Hafeda joined us as special issue editor. Hafeda is an artist and academic who develops situated participatory art methods in the contexts of urban conflict and immigration. Hafeda’s practice-led research theorises the tactical and critical role of bordering practice in negotiating the immaterialities and temporalities of everyday borders with the purpose of exposing their mechanisms and transforming their positions.