Experience

Cities are living archives — shaped as much by the hands that build them as by the feet that walk them and the memories they carry.

This exhibition presents a series of embroidered abstract maps created collaboratively by immigrant women living in Lisbon. Drawing from personal geographies and collective memory, each map questions how we document, claim, and reimagine the spaces we inhabit.

Through hand-stitched cartographies, the works weave together routes of migration, moments of arrival, and the quiet acts of placemaking that often go unrecorded.

3rd Floor

A re-reading of design history through the lens of cultural craft and collective authorship.

Entrecampos x Phulkari explores the intersection of Portuguese and South Asian textile traditions, questioning whose design narratives are celebrated and whose remain invisible.

The installation invites visitors to reconsider the function of objects — not merely as tools of utility, but as carriers of identity, resistance, and belonging.

Galeria Medieval

A continuation of the embroidered mapping project — this time within the medieval walls of Ourém.

The works reclaim the act of mapping with thread, needle, and memory. Created by immigrant women, each piece navigates personal and collective histories of displacement, arrival, and belonging.

Exhibited in the Galeria Medieval, the installation draws a line between ancient and contemporary migrations, inviting dialogue about who has the right to map, and to be mapped.

Casa do Jardim da Estrela

An exploration of how flora migrates alongside human journeys — carried in pockets, suitcases, and memory.

Taking Root traces the botanical routes of displacement, examining how immigrant communities cultivate gardens as acts of continuity and resistance. The embroidered works map the movement of seeds, spices, and medicinal plants across borders.

Rooted in collaboration with local immigrant women, this project stitches together ecological and human narratives, asking: what takes root when we do?