NH Diario 9/12/2020 “The project “The town of tomorrow”, by the architect Sandra González Álvarez, returns to Carballo two years after its first edition. And it does so in a virtual format due to the current health situation.”
“Children take Arzúa’s streets back again”
El Comacal (La Voz de Galicia) 26/11/2020 “Schoolchildren participated in a project to discover their habitat through architecture and art”
“How to recover the identity of a town, and how it could be again a place of meeting and exchange are, among others, the questions that explain the birth of ‘A Vila do Mañá’, an educational project whose goal is to promote, through game, children and teenagers´ awareness of the environment in which they live, and actively witness the processes of common space’s construction, thus giving them a leading role, usually reduced to a more controlled play environment such as playgrounds. The aim of the project, signed by the architect Sandra González, and its specific development in Arzúa are detailed in a recently published book, after the participation of a group of children from the town in the experience. Educational tools used in the design of the activities in which the children participated, for which Arzúa presented itself as a “xogo da oca” gameboard, with significant spaces and of reference in each of the boxes. The stone sculpture of the cheesmaker that in the central square of Galicia pays tribute to those who craft the product that identifies the municipality of Arzua, a stage of the Camino de Santiago, the sports complex of the municipal swimming pool, the baroque hermitage of A Mota, the historic complex that, in the urban section of the French route, they form the Carmen and Dolores streets, and some emblematic palaces of the municipality are represented in that original and unpublished “xogo da oca”, formed, thus, by architectonic, urbanistic, landscaping, artistic and cultural elements that form the identity of Arzúa. They were the scenarios in which the children who participated in the project developed activities structured through six concepts -scale, perception, space, town, landscape and sustainable development- and four tools: the point, the line, the plane, and the three-dimensional element.“
“Fact check. Are children forced to wear waist floats to maintain social distance in Spain?”
Observador 15/09/2020 “So what is it about? The publication has been shared numerous times in the last few hours and seen by more than 27,000 people, but it recounts an experience of a Spanish architectural firm that took place on the first weekend of September in Arzúa, a town in A Coruña.“
“How much is it a meter and a half?”
La Opinión A Coruña 07/09/2020 ““With the program ‘A Vila do Maña’, Sandra Gonzalez analyzes the design of the cities and whether they are adapted to the new measures derived from Covid-19. To check it out, she went out on Arzua’s streets with children using floaters to learn the safety distance’s measure. “Usually there is no place to walk,” says the architect from A Coruña.“
Malpica and Carballo takes part of “A Vila do Mañá”
NH Diario 23/07/2020 “A Vila do Mañá project inaugurates its second phase in which it will adapt its programming to the new reality created after the appearance of the coronavirus and to the need to modify urban spaces to suit people.
“A Vila do Mañá“ is an educational project whose goal is to promote, through game, children and teenagers’ awareness of all common scales: architecture, heritage, urbanism and landscape. It is necessary that children and adolescents actively witness the processes of common space’s construction (square, neighbourhood, city…), providing them with the necessary tools to aware the value of their environment and develop their creativity from art and architecture.”
Schoolchildren in the province claim more space for pedestrians in their municipalities
La Opinión A Coruña 23/07/2020 ““As Tonucci says, the city we live in has been sold, has become prostituted,“ Sandra González, -the creator and director of “A Vila do Mañá” program-, said yesterday, referring to the author of “La ciudad de los Niños”. The initiative reviews the design of cities and towns through children’s eyes and advocates the recovery of spaces for pedestrians and the reconfiguration of cities “tailored to people.“ The project has so far reached more than 2,000 children in Galicia -in 2019 it made the leap to Brazil- and is being developed with the support of A Coruña Council, which yesterday presented the second phase by the provincial head of culture, Xurxo Couto, and the program director. Couto praised the intention of the project to promote “that urban space stops being hostile to humanize itself“. From the region of A Coruña, children from Arteixo have participated and a workshop was planned in Cambre every afternoon this summer, but it has been cancelled by Covid-19, as well as many other planned activities. The pandemic, González pointed out, has made it possible to see more clearly the importance of living in cities with enough spaces to walk and stroll.“
“A Vila do Mañá” project adapts to the new reality of urban spaces caused by the covid
Deputación DA CORUÑA 22/07/2020 “The project “A Vila do Mañá“ inaugurates its second phase in which it will adapt its programming to the new reality created after the appearance of the coronavirus and the need to modify urban spaces to suit people. The head of the Culture Department of A Coruña Council, Xurxo Couto and the director of the project, Sandra González, took stock of the action in which more than two thousand children from different Galician municipalities have already participated.“
Literature for children at Sesc Santo Amaro
Noticias da região 10/03
Architect Sandra González is the creator of the Vila do Amanhã project, with the proposal to work with children and adolescents on concepts of urbanism, public spaces, a feeling of belonging to the place, among others. The project has already been carried out in several cities in Galicia, Spain, and on the 24th, 27th and 29th of March it will take place at Sesc Santo Amaro.
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