ANTI-MAP
11. Guillermo Gómez-Peña, ibid.
Here/there, indigenous people and immigrants share the same space, but are strangers. Here/ there, we are all potentially transborder dwellers and cultural exiles. Everyone has been uprooted to one degree or another and for different reasons, but not all are aware of this. Here/there, the homeless, the transborder culture and deterritorialization are the dominant experiences, not just extravagant academic theories.11 The here (does not) exist, nor does the there. Aquilá (HereThere) is the anti-map, inventing a world of intersections that are geographically impractical but engaged in the phenomena of experience. Without distinction: architects that stay, architects that go. All the migrants, the poets, all the architects are itinerant peripatetics, creating their own maps, maps of the world as real as they are imagined. Another world—a dreamt world that draws itself real.
Eduardo Aquino practices in the interstices of art & architecture under spmb [São Paulo-Manitoba]. In 2014 he completed a PhD at FAUUSP working on a project about beachscapes and was granted a National Urban Design Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for Jiigew. He is associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canadá.