Ribadeo
Changing the village through protagonist participation
reCOGNOZING Ribadeo
“Good urban acupuncture would be that which makes everyone know their city. How many people, in reality, know their own city? Hardly anyone respects what they do not know. But how can you respect your city if you do not understand it? Draw your city. […] But how can you improve your city if you do not even know it well? What do you do for it if you are not even capable of drawing it? That is the crux of the matter”.
Jaime Lerner
To understand how those who are and will be its inhabitants perceive their town, we will use the following strategy: we go out on a “drift” with a large golden frame, so that during our wandering they can frame those urban elements that are important to them (an experience based on the work of O’Grady). Who were the protagonists of this experience of “A Vila do Mañá”? On this occasion, during their wandering, places in their town—perhaps forgotten—were reDISCOVERED by them.
With “A Vila do Mañá”, the town in which they live is no longer an abstract idea, nor a series of small, partial images; it begins to be understood as a much more complex and broader environment, bringing us closer to the notion of habitat: a space that transcends its physical location within a territory in which we meet our needs, establish relationships with other people and with the environment—both natural and built—, involving processes through which it is transformed, but through which we are also transformed.
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.