Diario de Arousa 28/11/2018
Travel across the Vilagarcía of tomorrow, from A Independencia
La Voz de Galicia 20/11/2018 ““Are the works going to start?“ Drivers asked themselves that question days ago, when signs appeared announcing that parking in the Plaza da Independencia was going to be prohibited. They asked with the same perplexity with which a woman, yesterday afternoon, looked at the tangle of coloured threads that cross the square in all directions. I did not know it, but those brightly coloured strings are part of a time machine that will transport more than three hundred schoolchildren from the neighboring San Francisco School to “A Vila do mañá“ over the next few days.“
Children take the squares
Diario de Arousa 20/11/2018 “The bustle of screams and children’s laughter was yesterday’s soundtrack of all those who passed through the Praza da Independencia. Dozens of children from San Francisco School took this central square to kick off a new edition of “A Vila do mañá” initiative. Games of all kinds were the main attraction of the morning and will continue to be throughout this week. And the idea is not far from the image that the local government wants for this environment in just a few months. In fact, the works that will pedestrianize two of the three sides of this square will begin imminently. Meanwhile, that enjoyment of the street by pedestrians is experienced by the children.“
Vilagarcía’s kid reflect on the city they want as adults
Canal Rías Baixas 19/11/2018 “The chosen location was not a coincidence. A Praza da Independencia will soon undergo a major refurbishment, in which people will gain ground on cars. More than 300 children will pass through this space between today and Friday, or what is the same, 300 inhabitants of tomorrow’s Vilagarcía.”
“Children are the future of a city: if it is good for them, it is good for everyone”
elDiario.es 13/11/2018 “The architect Sandra González has developed her work “La Ciudad del Mañana / A Vila do Mañá” in several Galician towns. It has one goal: to make cities more accessible to children and families. “Today’s children live in a box, they travel in a smaller box –the car– and they arrive at a larger box: the school, the shopping centre, the sports centre or the playgrounds. They do not know the city they live in.“ She has presented it at the Child in the City World Conference in Vienna: “I think it is not necessary to look outside our territory, we have an example of how a city can change and become livable: Pontevedra“.”
Children transform a wall next to the Aula da Natureza
La Opinión A Coruña 31/08/2018 “The organizers of this activity explain that in this way “a residual surface is invaded“ and they also point out that as long as the seeds do not germinate, the wall is full of colour due to the geotextile envelopes. The workshop proposes the temporary transformation of various public spaces in Arteixo.“
“Transforming cities with the little ones”
La Opinión A Coruña 29/08/2018 “More than fifty children from Arteixo take part in an architecture, urban planning and landscape workshop for children, in which the organizers try to draw attention to the cities that have been built in recent years. Sandra González, who is, along with her PØSTarquitectos team, one of those in charge of putting it into operation, says that one of the goals of this activity is to “generate identity“ among the little ones. In the workshop, children explain their vision of the municipality and draw the most outstanding elements for them: the Burger King, the sports centre, a supermarket and the park, according to González. They also propose how the locality should be.”
“A Vila do Mañá” continues growing: Cambados
La Voz de Galicia 22/08/2018 “What better way to learn and appreciate the heritage and architecture of the town rather than playing. The program “A vila do mañá“ is applying it. Yesterday it was in Fefiñáns and today, in A Pastora.”
“I was very excited to be chosen, it’s like representing Spain in Eurovision”
La Opinión A Coruña 19/08/2018 “Sandra González, who works as an architect in her A Coruña studio, takes the site between San Andrés and Mantelería streets to the Biennial, where she designed a “manufacturing laboratory“, a complex dedicated to the production of designs and inventions embodied in an open-plan building with exterior coloured stairs that will generate an “urban revival“. But not only that project bears her signature in the Spanish virtual and physical pavilion.“
“A Vila do Mañá” on TVG
TVG 07/08/2018 “One hundred children between 3 and 12 years old participate during this week in Vilagarcía in the workshops of “A Vila do Mañá“. It is a project that aims to discover, playfully, the vision that children have of the cities in which they live and to introduce ideas to modify them.
The project is based on an idea of the city in which cars rejected people. The ribbons in the old fish market square of Vilagarcía symbolize urban obstacles.
Children explore the playful side, make it their own, and tomorrow they will invade a street to create their own leisure space.“
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