Rianxo
changing the village through protagonist participation
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.
Ribadeo
Changing the village throught protagonist participation
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.
Changing the village through protagonist participation
A few years ago, in a context where measuring distances between bodies became urgent, in A Vila do Mañá we took the floaters out to the street.
They helped us make visible the invisible space, the one we occupy when we notice, the one that separates or unites us.
Today we recover the floaters, but from a different perspective: not as a defense, but as a tool for perception, not to mark distances, but to measure presence, scale, and the right to public space.
How much space does a body in motion occupy?
How much space does a person need to walk, stop, play, or talk without having to step aside?
In Pontevedra, a city that has been standing by people’s side for years, we went out to check.
We want to make visible what is already working, and also what can still improve.
The floaters, with their playful shape and enveloping volume, help us to feel the space with our bodies, to experience the city from a human scale, and to ask ourselves collectively:
Is my city designed for me?
The village or city in which we are working has been turned into a game board, a laboratory of experimentation where girls, boys and teenagers can act from a new point of view.
PONTEVEDRA
changing the village through protagonist participation
“Cada cidade ten a súa historia, os seus puntos de referencia. Non me refiro só a aquelas construcións que se clasifican como marcas importantes do patrimonio histórico da nación. Refírome, principalmente, aos lugares que pertencen á memoria da cidade e que son puntos fundamentais da súa identidade, do sentimento de pertenza a unha cidade. Xa sexa unha fábrica, unha parada do antigo tranvía ou unha daquelas tendas de comestibles que o tiñan todo inxenuamente exposto.”
Jaime Lerner
To understand how the inhabitants, both current and future, perceive their village, we will use the following strategy: we set off ‘adrift’ with a large golden frame, so that during our wandering, we frame those urban elements that are important to them (an experience based on the work of O’Grady). Who have been the protagonists of this ‘A Vila do Mañá’ experience? On this occasion, during their wandering, they have reDISCOVERED places in their village, perhaps forgotten ones.
With ‘A Vila do Mañá’, the village in which they live is not an abstract idea, nor a series of small partial images; it begins to be understood as a much more complex and expansive environment, bringing us closer to the notion of habitat: the space that transcends its physical location in a territory where we fulfil our needs, establishing relationships with others and with the environment, both natural and built; involving processes in which it transforms, but in which we are also transformed.
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.
pontevedra
We understand the village as a game board, as a meeting place and as a learning laboratory for children and teenagers, through the tools of childhood such as their own movement and play. They have to discover, live, know and value their habitat in order to be able to act in it as an active citizen, thus encouraging protagonist participation from childhood.
PONTEVEDRA
We want children and teenagers to learn to look at the place where they live, taking with them two powerful tools: ART and ARCHITECTURE. They are two elements that help us to understand the world and, most importantly, also to transform it.
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