An excerpt of the editorial written for the project and some other relevant aspects:
«It is a Strange Realism, but It is a Strange Reality: For a Pact Between Design and Fiction in the Post-Truth Era is a project that stemmed from the post-truth era and the possible relations with design and fiction.

Analysts claim that we are living in a post-truth era in which facts, truth and reality are increasingly undermined, while fiction is given a status upgrade. The relationship between fact and fiction, and truth and lie has become an increasingly tense one.

Fiction is the domain of the writer and the artist, not of the journalist or the politician. Not that fiction has nothing to do with truth and reality. Fiction can open up the world, clarify it, but also question it. Or offer a different perspective, at the very least. 

Fiction also hints at a wide range of possibilities. It allows us to think up and imagine other realities, explore new perspectives on the future, or represent something that is hard or even impossible to represent otherwise. 

Artists often translate their empirical sources into an artistic universe and deliberately blur the boundaries between ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’. Indeed, they share a fascination with the same ‘problem’: the impossible challenge of representing reality.  

Besides the printed publication, which serves as the project's main container, there is also a website that has been built to expand on the theme of It is a Strange Realism, but It is a Strange Reality....

While the printed publication is focused on the theoretical issues, which are then briefly illustrated with projects, on the website there is a more conceptual exploration, so that the narrative of It is a Strange Realism, but It is a Strange Reality... is driven by a thought that, although linked to the theoretical side of the publication, is entirely influenced by what is presented about each project—from the selection of images of each one, to the prominence of phrases present in each project.