The aim of ‘A Vila da Mañá’ is to change the model of town or city, we believe that another one can be possible. This is achieved through the protagonist participation of local children and adolescents who, by working with fundamental concepts through tactical urban planning actions, become active citizens capable of transforming their spaces.

In this case, we work on the scale of the human and the town. The starting point is to become aware of their own corporate dimensions to approach other dimensions such as the town and the territory. It is a perceptive journey that we situate between the hand, which represents what is close to his body, and the horizon, the distance that reaches the eye. Thus, humanising the spaces on their own scale, living, playing, and changing their place as part of active citizenship.

Recognition of psychogeographic effects and the assertion of a playful-constructive behavior that opposes it in all aspects to the classical notions of travelling and walking. […]. But drift, in its unitary character, comprises that letting go and its necessary contradiction: the mastery of psychogeographic variables through knowledge and the calculation of possibilities. […]. Chance plays in the drift an even more important role the less settled the psychogeographical observation is. “

Guy Debord