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 reject the consideration of public space as a floor with a specialized use, it is not known whether it is green or grey, whether it is for circulation or for being, for selling or for buying, qualified only by being of “public domain” even if it is at the same time a residual or empty space. It is the city that deserves consideration as a public space. […]. The public space also conceived as an instrument of social redistribution, of community cohesion, of collective self-esteem. And assume that the public space is a political space, for the formation and expression of collective wills, the space of representation but also of conflict. If there is public space, there is hope for revolution, or progress.

Jordi Borja