It is fascinating to think of an often invisible mechanical bearing that conjures dichotomies. A joint that allows separation between two surfaces, a fixture that makes movement possible, also an app that digs love out of algorithms.

Our contemporary anxieties make for a shared feeling: of being on the edge. Would you volunteer to fall off a hinge, in the hopes of landing on a different plane? Al Borde, an architectural practice based in Ecuador, has an ethos that matches its name, staying on the edge to find new pathways that steer away from inventing 'needs' - unlike conventional Western responses to Global South 'problems', its co-founder David Barragán shares with STIR. This issue passes through Britain and brings a review of 'Archigram Ten', the latest volume of the radical architecture group's magazine after a 50 year hiatus.

The gap in time - half a century in between, folds to hold the question - did Archigram really go away? Edited by Peter Cook, the issues of today find echoes in the solutions of the 60s. Creative agency TEMPLO dives into the power of rebranding, swinging fresh appeal for the 140-year-old legacy paper brand GF Smith. Landing a needle on Central Asia through 'YOU ARE HERE. Central Asia' at the Fondazione Elpis in Milan, we question how we view artistic practice from less familiar locales outside the Euro-American context, rotating the critique to encompass exhibition, artists and audiences alike. Mechanically, to hinge (upon) can mean to depend, pivot, swing, rotate or rest. As a metaphor, a hinge is an edge, a border, a fold, a flip, the familiar limbo between one thing and the other.