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, the village is worked on, like its habitat, its game board to be discovered. Understanding its structure, conformation, morphology, its voids and its fillings, its history, its traditions, and its symbolic and immaterial issues is essential to be able to reflect on how they move from one site to another, the routes, the points important where the lives of the girls, boys and teenagers of the community develop.

‘We look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech. The point is also, on the outside, simply the practical, utilitarian element that we have known since childhood. The outer sign becomes customary and darkens the inner sound of the symbol. […] The sound of everyday silence is, to the point, so shrill, that it imposes itself on all its other properties.’

Kandinsky