La Voz de Galicia 28/11/2019 “Throughout the past week the “Plaza de A Independencia” had some very special visitors. The students from San Francisco School were the protagonists of “A Vila do Mañá“, which ended yesterday with a very special activity.”
Faro de Vigo 28/11/2018 “About 340 students from San Francisco School carried out various activities in the Plaza de la Independencia, which, for a few months, has already closed to traffic the street that is intended to be added to the recreation area. Hand in hand with the program developed by the architect Sandra González Álvarez, the children worked in this space with the line, the plane and the three-dimensional element, imagining what the city of tomorrow would be like, in which they raised many gardens and a “Vilaking“.”
Diario de Arousa 21/11
Children’s rights day. The plenary hall once again hosted the children’s session with the participation of four educational centers in the town.
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.“
Faro de Vigo 20/11/2018 “Students from San Francisco School took the Praza da Independencia yesterday morning within “A vila do mañá“ program, an initiative of the councils of Urbanism and Education of the Vilagarcía City Council to claim the streets as places of meeting, coexistence and recreation. Thus, children go back to playing in the street, as was usual until not so many years ago.”
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.“
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.”
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“.”
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