TOURO
CHANGING THE VILLAGE THROUGH PROTAGONIST PARTICIPATION
Working with Galician Literature, Curros Enríquez
In a place lacking strong identity references (where the main element of collective memory was a disused nightclub), the project begins with a latent infrastructure: the town’s street map, whose names pay tribute to authors of Galician literature. Based on this cultural cartography, A Vila do Mañá turns words into infrastructure and literature into a tool for urban activation.
The figures of children and teenagers themselves (their silhouettes, bodies, and gestures) become the visual protagonists of the urban space. The aim is not to represent them, but to allow them to inscribe themselves into the landscape with their scale, their language, and their living presence. Their image occupies façades, walls, and partitions, intervening in the urban environment with their collective identity and symbolic power.
COLOUR YOUR VILLAGE
The village or city in which we are working, transformed into a game board, a laboratory of experimentation where children and teenagers can act from a new point of view.
