‘A Vila do Mañá’ emerges from the right to the city, as defended by Henri Lefebvre, so that the people who live in it have the right to enjoy it, to transform it and to reflect their way of understanding life in the community. From this point of view, how can we not include the right of children and adolescents to their city? For this reason, public space is considered a common space for learning and collective construction in which children and adolescents must also have a place.

The aim of ‘A Vila da Mañá’ is to change the model of town or city, we believe that another one can be possible. This is achieved through the protagonist participation of local children and adolescents who, by working with fundamental concepts through tactical urban planning actions, become active citizens capable of transforming their spaces.

In this case we work with sustainability, reflecting on the way in which we relate to the planet and making girls, boys, and teenagers aware that what is sustainable consists of a balance between what allows us to develop our lives and what does not compromise the survival of future generations. And so, realizing that we only have one planet with limited resources that must be taken care of.

Niñas y niños, en sus soledades mudas,

cruzan las calles de ciudades amargas.

Ritmos vertiginosos modulan su caminar.

No hay paradas para el descanso, no hay tiempo.

No hay tiempo para recuperarse, y mirar y sentir,

para observar, para aprender. Para querer.

Inhóspitos espacios urbanos, de guerras sin sentido,

valores olvidados y ambiciones desmedidas,

equivocan a sus gentes.

Y entre memorias rotas, contenedores mal olientes,

semáforos, coches, vomitonas y orines,

también lágrimas de niños mojan las calles.

Adriana Bisquert

The aim of ‘A Vila da Mañá’ is to change the model of town or city, we believe that another one can be possible. This is achieved through the protagonist participation of local children and adolescents who, by working with fundamental concepts through tactical urban planning actions, become active citizens capable of transforming their spaces.

In this case, the landscape is worked on, looking for the interaction between the built, the more natural and the intermediate territories. Understanding how people build and modify the landscape and how we inhabit it, and it builds us and our identity.

“At one time we were afraid of the forest. It was the forest of the wolf, the ogre, the darkness. It was the place where we could get lost. When our grandparents used to tell us stories, the forest was the favourite place to hide from enemies, traps and troubles. [At one time, we felt safe among the houses, in the city, with the neighbourhood. This was the place where we looked for our companions, where we found them to play together. That was our place, the place where we hid, where we organised the gang, where we played mummy, where we hid the treasure…. […] But in a few decades, everything has changed. There has been a tremendous, rapid, total transformation, the likes of which our society has never seen (at least according to documented history). [The forest has become beautiful, luminous, the object of dreams and desires. The city, on the other hand, has become dirty, grey, monstrous. […] In recent decades, and in the last fifty years in particular, the city, born as a place for meeting and exchange, has discovered the commercial value of space and has altered all concepts of balance, well-being and community to follow only programmes of profit, of interest. It has been sold, prostituted. […] The city is now like the forest of our fairy tales”.

FrancescoTonucci

The Arsenal Wall is understood as a great barrier, a border separating two cities. This issue is presented to the children through a game: What do you think is on the other side of the wall?
After analysing the drawings and a series of crazy ideas about what lies behind the wall, we are shown a reality that all the inhabitants of Ferrol live with: their ignorance of a large part of their city.