Unfolding across five chapters, this issue frames the notion of pseudo along and beyond its ties with the «fake».

While chapter one «Simulation» blends the artificial with the familiar – whether through scale models or controlled biomes – «Promise» explores how futures are staged to organise the present. Across political narratives and visualisations, uncertainty is transformed into orientation, projecting futures that feel both necessary and real. «Role» examines how identities become naturalised through space, claiming to be neutral, caring or traditional. «Scam» investigates architecture and urbanism as credible deceptive practices, where authenticity is fabricated and images pave the way for a collective participation in illusions. «Construction» examines how territorial interventions, such as camps, corridors, or quarries, produce political realities and stabilise power, turning narration into infrastructure. Ultimately, pseudo emerges as a condition that both shifts and suspends reality: not fully true, yet never entirely false.