BARBADÁS
Transforming the Village Through Protagonist Participation
Tactical Urbanism for Traffic Calming
“streets / Girls and boys, in their mute solitudes / they cross the streets of bitter cities / Vertiginous rhythms modulate his walk / There are no rest stops, there is no time / There is no time to recover, and look and feel / to observe, to learn / to want Inhospitable urban spaces, of senseless wars / forgotten values and excessive ambitions / they mislead their people / And between broken memories, foul-smelling containers / traffic lights, cars, vomit and urine / children’s tears also wet the streets”
Adriana Bisquert
It is a simple and powerful formula of URBAN TRANSFORMATION, which is followed by TOWNS and CITIES worldwide and which allows spaces to be changed through actions with ephemeral and economic elements.
In this way, it is possible to TRANSFORM mere transit or parking SPACES into ZONES OF LIFE and social interaction, creating meeting places for the community and above all designed by and for girls, boys and teenagers, where they are the protagonists.
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.