The aim of ‘A Vila da Maña’ is to change the model of town or city, we believe that another may be possible. This is achieved through the leading participation of local girls, boys and teenagers who, working with the fundamental concepts through tactical urbanism 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.

“In our perception, the point is the essential, unique bridge between words and silence. […] The point is also, on the outside, simply the practical, utilitarian element that we have known since childhood. The outer sign becomes habitual and obscures the inner sound of the symbol. […] The sound of everyday silence is, to the point, so strident, that it imposes itself on all its other properties.”

Kandinsky