Pontevedra will become a playground for children
Diario de Pontevedra 5/12/2025
Estrada will collect the memories of the elderly about local heritage
La Voz de Galicia 15/11
On the occasion of the celebration of International World Heritage Day, A Estrada will host an activity tomorrow, Thursday, with the elders of the municipality in which, through a game, they will collect their memories about the municipal heritage. The activity is organized by the Association for the Defense of Galician Cultural Heritage (Apatrigal) and the Galician Association for Helping Patients with Alzheimer’s Dementia (Agadea). It will take place, under the motto A vila de onte, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the center of Agadea in the Novo Mercado.
Sandra González, architect: «Ugliness! Why do we have to say that ours is ugly? It makes us inferior”
La Voz de Galicia 11/09
Sandra González positions herself regarding everything in her field of architecture and urban planning. She declares herself angry with how Galician towns and cities have generally developed; She disagrees with the excessively numerical and “rancid” nature of the training given to future architects, and is repelled by the consideration of the term ugliness as an excuse for “flagellation.” But he has channeled that critical spirit trying to stir consciences. He went out into the streets and created A vila do mañá, workshops that he has developed in 27 municipalities and has even taken to Brazil and through which 9,800 children and adolescents have passed, whom he has taught through play to value their environment, know where it came from. What surrounds them and how they can improve it without losing their essence. She has just done it in the Vigo neighborhood of Coia and also in Bueu, Cambados, Silleda, Vilagarcía, Ferrol, Santiago or São Paulo. She has been requested to present her project on urban spaces in Madrid and Barcelona, and delegations have just come from Iceland and Kentucky to meet her. «In Galicia, on the other hand, it has not been counted anywhere. Maybe because I say what I think and it hurts,” she thinks.
Miño amends his urban history
La Opinión 14/08
Some 100 children are initiated into the transformation of urban space with A Vila do Mañá.
The initiative ended up in Bemantes and Xarío for two weeks.
A new edition of A Vila do Maña has begun in Silleda with Antón Alonso as the protagonist
Ecos da comarca 27/06
Silleda will host throughout this week, until Friday the 30th, A Vila do Mañá, a fun and educational bet that in recent years has been developed in different Galician towns and has also reached São Paulo, in Brazil. About 60 boys and girls will enjoy activities and interventions related to art and architecture in the morning and afternoon, and at no cost to the users.
These workshops, for boys and girls from the age of 5, from the municipal term with different activities coordinated by a personal monitor that will take place in the morning and afternoon in the streets and public spaces of Silleda will feature the work of Antón Alonso as the protagonist this year rivers The group will carry out a literary tour through the work of Mr. Afranio through the town of Silleda, with footsteps that will accompany the group in each intervention.
“Cities are not designed for children”
YES – La Voz de Galicia 13/06
Galicia has just celebrated some municipal elections to elect the mayors who will manage the councils for the next four years. They will be responsible for the management of public benefits and also for the transformation of urban areas into more habitable places. But, are these managers in future inhabitants at the time of making decisions? What is it, are the urban areas designed for children? «We found children in their homes, watching the TV, walking in their ditches and dilapidated urbanizations, moving by coach and discovering the city from where their window, where the park or the square were replaced by the shopping centre»
Completed the game board of the Goose with the “roteiro” of Coia
La Voz de Galicia 19/06
Students from the Alexandre Bóveda de Vigo institute have completed the design of the game board that imitates the traditional one of the Oca but in which the participants go through the squares of the main patrimonial elements of Coia. The initiative has had the participation of the academic institution of the neighborhood and PØST Arquitectos, a firm that has already carried out more than twenty interventions in as many Galician towns to extol their architectural, artistic and natural elements within the A Vila do Mañá project. .
Students from Alexandre Bóveda create a game set in Coia
Atlántico 16/06
The “Roteiro por Coia” project seeks to make the neighborhood better known through a game started by teachers more than a decade ago
Fourth-year ESO students from the Alexandre Bóveda Institute painted a board of the goose in the schoolyard, in which each box contains a reference to prominent places or people in Coia, and today they will do it in a selected space in the neighborhood .
A Game of the Goose made by students allows to know the history of Coia (Vigo)
Treintayseis 16/06
The Coia neighborhood has an interesting unknown history, even by many residents of the area. So to remedy this, the teachers of the Alexandre Bóveda Institute decided, several years ago, to carry out a project with the aim of reconstructing the neighborhood’s past and making it available to its inhabitants. To do this, he involved his students and, through different annual projects -in addition to the section focused specifically on data collection- he tries to do it in an entertaining and didactic way.
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