Radio Valladares 13/06
Get to know the place where we live by playing. That is one of the ideas of The town of tomorrow, especially designed for children, from the 38th minute.
A giant goose game to love Coia
La Voz de Galicia 07/05
A group of architects and the Alexandre Bóveda high school community want to show that the neighborhood is much more than the Alcampo and the boat traffic circle.
One hundred and twenty young people from the Alexandre Bóveda high school in Coia were invited to draw on paper what they understand to be the greatest artistic, architectural and social heritage of their neighborhood, what they believe identifies it unambiguously. And ninety of those students between 14 and 17 years old agreed on the same image: the traffic circle with the Alfageme boat and the Alcampo hypermarket. From the front, from above, in the foreground, in pencil, in color… but always with the boat stranded in the middle of the traffic and the establishment that inaugurated a new way of buying and selling in Galicia as a reference.
The children of Arzúa learn to love the heritage that surrounds them in a playful way.
La Voz de Galicia 11/04
The educational and informative program “A Vila do Mañá” came to the town to awaken a new look in children and young people about the spaces in which they live their lives.
During the Easter vacations a group of children from Arzúa had the opportunity to learn to love the heritage that surrounds them in a playful way through A vila do mañá. The informative and educational program directed by the architect Sandra González Álvarez, honorary member of the Association for the Defense of Galician Cultural Heritage (Apatrigal), aims to awaken a new look in children and young people about the spaces in which they live their lives. Through different activities, with the streets and squares of Arzúa as a game board, they were able to discover many of the treasures that this crossroads houses.
Arzúa starts a new edition of the program A Vila do Maña in Holy Week
El Progreso 27/03
The Department of Culture of the City Council of Arzúa, directed by Aurora Varela, will launch a new edition of the A Vila do Mañá program over the coming Holy Week.
This initiative, which will take place on April 3, 4, 5 and 6, seeks to facilitate family reconciliation during school holidays and, at the same time, help the youngest to deepen their knowledge of their town.
To achieve this objective, different outdoor activities are proposed to the participants within the urban area itself, in order for them to identify and signpost the most outstanding places in it, thus contributing to its enhancement both for the residents themselves and for the public. hundreds of visitors who come to the town through the Camino.
The children of Vimianzo think and play the Vila do Mañá
El Correo Gallego 29/12
Twenty-one boys and girls from Vimianzo are actively participating this week in the program The town of tomorrow, which makes them protagonists and architects of the transformation and future of their locality so that it is more sustainable, safer and, above all, for the people.
This is an initiative promoted in 2016 by the architect Sandra González, coordinated and sponsored by Apatrigal, which aims for the youngest “to be the owners of towns and cities and exercise their right to transform them, with prior knowledge of them”. To do this, the little Vimians are deepening their knowledge of their town, making the streets their own (to the extent that the rain allows) based on a conception of the urban space as a huge game board in three dimensions so that they “explore, recognize and are able to modify it”, says the promoter.
On the first day they were asked to draw the element or space of Vimianzo that is most meaningful to them, and “the answer was unanimous: the castle”. From there, the participating girls and boys built a similar structure in 3D.
Last Tuesday, taking advantage of the fact that it wasn’t raining, they developed a tactical urbanism proposal, appropriating the central Candil street, which connects the Church square with one of the children’s parks, leaving it empty of cars for a few hours. At that time they gave color to the street by painting lines of different colors. “What we intend to convey is that towns and cities belong to the people”, says González Álvarez.
In this regard, he emphasizes that “most towns are walkable in less than 15 minutes and are surrounded by green areas”. This project seeks to promote an awareness of society to recover for people the urban spaces, which have been colonized by motorized vehicles.
Sandra González considers that this is also an opportunity for the councils to rethink a different future for our towns, but for that it is necessary to “generate links of identity with the places where we live”.
That is one of the purposes of this program, made up of activities that revolve around seven fundamental concepts: language, perception, space, landscape, scale, sustainability and the city, and which has as necessary tools the point, the line , the plane and the three-dimensional element.
It is about the place being transformed into something dynamic, “which is no longer apprehended, but can be modified by themselves, giving them a leading role that is not normally given to them in the creation of spaces or is reduced to an area of more controlled play, such as the school yard or the children’s area of the parks”.
The town of tomorrow was born after the economic crisis resulting from the real estate boom. Far from serving as a learning experience, “it was forgotten and the same thing was done again, so I thought this was an opportunity to rethink and rethink what we are doing”, points out Sandra González. After traveling through most of the municipalities of the Ría de Arousa, and also passing through Malpica de Bergantiños and Carballo, the program “is in a continuous process of evolution” and is available to all those municipalities that wish to take advantage of an opportunity to reformulate their future.
The children of Vimianzo think and play the Vila do Mañá
Que pasa na Costa 29/12
These workshops organized by architect Sandra González Álvarez, as part of the A Vila do Maña program, and supported by Apatrigal, are beautiful, fun and very educational. They have passed through Malpica or Carballo, and Vimianzo is one of the mandatory stops.
This week, the girl from Vimiance is the protagonist of this tactical urbanism action program to encourage active participation from childhood, based on the ideas of Francesco Tonucci.
The Council has prepared this conciliation format for the girls to carry out tremendously formative Christmas workshops, which open the minds of our children.
they are the protagonists of many of the activities
Ven a Galicia 29/12
At Vimianzo they want to involve boys and girls in building the space they want. Thus, the reconciliation proposals fall under the heading “A vila do mañá”, a tactical urban planning action program to encourage protagonist participation from childhood, based on the ideas of Francesco Tonucci. With the support of the Association for the Defense of Galician Cultural Heritage (Apatrigal) and promoted by the City Council, the sessions are directed by the architect Sandra González Álvarez, honorary associate of the entity.
‘A vila do mañá’ in Vimianzo
La Voz de Galicia 29/12
‘A vila do mañá’ and ice rink. The Christmas workshop in Vimianzo, which lasts until tomorrow, is in progress.
Vimianzo bets again for the project “A vila do mañá”
La Voz de Galicia 28/12
in Vimianzo bet again on the project “A vila do mañá”, which aims to involve young people in the construction of common spaces.
Conciliation at Christmas, again in the framework of “The town of tomorrow”
La Voz de Galicia 26/12
“Council at Christmas”. Again in the framework of “Tomorrow’s town”, Vimianzo launches this program for children aged 5 to 14. Until the 30th, free, but prior registration is required.
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