This video captures the conceptual foundation of ‘Play Borderisms’, a project that uses design as a poetic, critical and political tool to amplify stories of belonging, displacement and resistance. The audiovisual narrative unfolds around types of ‘bordered-ness’, each one representing a different relationship to the border. These categories are not rigid but living expressions of how individuals navigate the emotional, cultural and geopolitical weight of living within borders.

Each type of borderism unfolds through intersecting layers—territory and migration status, learned skills, emotions, language, asymmetries, identity and agency—all shaped by the experience of crossing and being crossed. Through voice, image and rhythm, this project aims to reveal what is often left unseen: the affective and embodied knowledge that emerges from navigating between worlds. Rather than explaining the border, the project seeks to reflect it—fragmented, mirrored, contradictory and alive.

As an ongoing project, this audiovisual register marks only one of many moments in the life of ‘Play Borderisms’, which will continue evolving across formats, audiences and geographies.