CURTIS
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.
“Those who have designed, administered and governed them have done so without completing those other dimensions (making one-dimensional cities based on production) and that the definitions of the RAE ignore, and the principle of action has prevailed over their understanding of reality. These cities conceive public space as the space that allows us to get to work from home, without asking if for some the street is synonymous with relationship and encounter and for others it entails exposure and risk”
Izaskun Chinchilla
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.