ABSTRACT
In 1967, Michel Foucault argued that we lived in an era of space and that space would be the great obsession of modern days. In his words, we live in an era of spatial simultaneity, dispersion and juxtaposition. The way in which we experience space is in the form of a net that connects points because we can very easily move everywhere and anywhere, and technical means allow easy and fast communication. In Foucault's words, this representation includes a peculiar way of conceiving and understanding space and its discontinuities. Foucault developed his idea into an affirmation that we can find in all cultures three types of conceptions on space: conceptions on real spaces, conceptions on utopic spaces, conceptions on real spaces perceived as discontinued and full of qualities which make them different, or other spaces. Such spaces are different from neutral, familiar and ordinary spaces. Foucault designated these latter spaces as heterotopias. Utopia exists, for instance, in a fictional map or an oral account, but not in an actual territory. Heterotopia exists in a territory but is perceived by individuals, groups or cultures as different spaces, or other spaces.
