Overlaying the six psychogeographical maps creates the seventh simple -- I Have Been Here Before. This new map of the latent city of is in search of a series of meta-sites which exist in the space between fiction and reality.

Everyone Knows What the Night is For The Eternal Vistas of Love The Meeting Place of Love and Hunger Trophy of a Hunter in the Forests of the Night The Key to the City Perpetual Motion

[top] psychogeographical maps for each simple [below] the six architectural simples

“All a dream, all a dream. I need to wake up. Keep my eyes open somehow. I need to get out of here. Out of here! What if.... I film my way out of here?”

Jamais vu Winnipeg - , An Architectural Fiction

“Jamais vu” directly translates to ‘never seen’ -- it also refers to the psychological ...what if I build my way out of here?... phenomenon whereby one experiences an eerie sense of disconnect, or the unfamiliar, in a situation where they rationally know things to be familiar.

This thesis proposes an architectural fiction about anever before seen Winnipeg. The project began “Everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. “ with Angela Carter’s novel, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, and the narrative was used to guide an exploration of my hometown of Winnipeg, . I was also further inspired -The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by fellow Winnipegger Guy Maddin, and his filmMy Winnipeg. The design research semester began Angela Carter, p. 110 with a psychogeographical mapping of my personal territories of occupation within the city and has now led me to a series of meta-sites -- sites that do not necessarily fully or solely exist in the realm of the real or the fictive. The design thesis proposes the construction of a series of architectural “Winnipeg, we negotiate the great white ways. fragments, or sets, to be situated in specific locations, currently being determined, within these meta- The snow labyrinths. sites. These architectural fragments are intended to broadly examine the boundaries between fact and Mazes of ectoplasm that determine fiction, much like the space we inhabit within a novel or a film, that suspend us in a dream-like state our paths through our lives here. of possibility. The new map of meta-sites constructed during the first semester, will now serve as the latent territory for further architectural interventions. Rather than working directly with the initial We have little or no choice where we go, novel, these interventions will arise from the explorations of how Carter’s novel translates into my where we sleep, what we feel.” own architectural story of Winnipeg. The architectural interventions will form a new mythic chapter that I am situating as a postscript to Maddin’s My Winnipeg. - My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin

Tina Gigliotti Advisor: N. Subotincic

Carter, Angela. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Penguin Books: New York, 1972. Maddin, Guy, Director. My Winnipeg. Motion Picture. Winnipeg, Manitoba: , 2007.