‘A Vila do Maña’ works with three-dimensional elements, based on Froebel’s “third gift”.
In architecture we have Froebel as a reference, through Frank Lloyd Wrigth who was educated with this method. It is a system based on the creativity and intuition of the child through direct experience, play and nature. It creates a pedagogical resource based on ‘gifts’ and ‘occupations’. The ‘gifts’ are pedagogical materials that do not change, but are transformed; the ‘occupations’ are activities in which children play by transforming the objects they manipulate. The ‘gifts’ are precursors of today’s building blocks.

The aim of ‘A Vila da Maña’ is to change the model of town or city, we believe that another may be possible. This is achieved through the leading participation of local girls, boys and teenagers who, working with the fundamental concepts through tactical urbanism actions, become active citizens capable of transforming their spaces.

In this case, you work with the space, being the body that travels and plays in the spaces with all the senses deployed, through the experimentation of light, texture, color, sound… transforming public spaces into common ones.

“But the line hides among its other properties, and ultimately, the deeply hidden desire to procreate a plane, thus becoming a denser entity, more closed in itself. […] When the line dies, at what point does the plane emerge? […] By basic plan is understood the material surface called to receive the content of the work. […] The schematic basic plane is limited by 2 horizontal and 2 vertical lines, and thus acquires, in relation to the environment that surrounds it, an independent entity.”

Kandinsky