This ongoing work by Homelore engages directly with this provocative question, drawing inspiration from Gayatri Spivak's seminal essay. It explores whether those on the margins—in this case, immigrant women—can truly make their voices heard in the city they now call home. The project operationalizes this inquiry by weaving it with Henri Lefebvre's concept of the "right to the city" and the participatory, transformative methods of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.

The process begins with a simple, yet profound act of documentation: immigrant women are invited to capture geolocated photographs of Lisbon, mapping their favourite haunts, daily paths, and moments of connection. These images become the raw material for a deeper investigation. Running parallel, Homelore convenes a group of local Lisboetas to undertake the same exercises, documenting their own emotional and physical maps of the city. Through a series of guided workshops, participants are urged to interrogate their access to and belonging within the urban fabric. Whose city is it? Where do they feel welcome, and where are they unseen? Their visual diaries and reflections are shared and discussed collectively, forming the foundational narratives that will later be translated into intricate embroidery explorations.

The final artwork emerges from the juxtaposition of these two distinct experiences. It will manifest as a singular, tangible "map" of a stitched cartography where the threads of immigrant and local perspectives intersect, overlap, and sometimes diverge. This embroidered dialogue does not seek to provide easy answers, but to instigate a necessary and larger conversation about belonging, visibility, and the shared right to shape the story of a city.