A Coruña
changing the village through protagonist participation
Working with three-dimensional elements
“A oportunidade de que a nena e o neno descubran o seu propio movemento forma parte da cidade en si; a cidade tamén é un espazo de xogo. A nena e o neno utilizan todos os elementos da cidade, todos os obxectos construídos, todas as superficies polas que pode agatuñar ou trepar. As nenas e os nenos saben xogar moi ben con estas cousas, aínda que non teñan permiso para iso.”
Aldo van Eyck
‘A Vila do Maña’ works with three-dimensional elements, based on Froebel’s “third gift”.
In architecture we have Froebel as a reference, through Frank Lloyd Wrigth who was educated with this method. It is a system based on the creativity and intuition of the child through direct experience, play and nature. It creates a pedagogical resource based on ‘gifts’ and ‘occupations’. The ‘gifts’ are pedagogical materials that do not change, but are transformed; the ‘occupations’ are activities in which children play by transforming the objects they manipulate. The ‘gifts’ are precursors of today’s building blocks.
Colour your village
The village or city in which we are working has been turned into a game board, a laboratory of experimentation where children and teenagers can act from a new point of view.