Their shadows projected on the road of Faragullas street, in Teixeiro, in the section that runs next to the nursery school, invite you to step on the brake better than any traffic sign.
The wonderful adventure of discovering what surrounds you
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The wonderful adventure of discovering what surrounds you.
How can we recover the identity of our peoples? How could they become a meeting and exchange place again? Some of these issues led the PØSTarquitectos studio to create the A vila do mañá project, an educational and informative initiative so that, through play, children become aware of all scales of the common: architecture, tangible heritage and intangible, urbanism and landscape.
“Silleda will bring its heritage and landscape closer to children with games”
La Voz de Galicia
“”A Vila do Mañá” will include workshops for six days
Silleda wants to bring the identity of towns and cities closer through game dynamics for children, in an informative and educational initiative that seeks to raise awareness about architecture, heritage, urbanism and the everyday landscape. The program, named A Vila do Mañá, will take place over a week and is aimed at children between the ages of 5 and 14. It will take place from June 28 to July 3.
This type of informative project, which is equally committed to entertainment and education, was developed in previous years in other Galician towns and also reached cities such as San Paulo in Brazil. The activities will take place through the streets of Silleda, in the morning and afternoon, coordinated by monitors. They will be free for those registered in the municipality, with 40 offers. Starting next week, interested parties will be able to register at the town hall. The program will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., except for the last day on Saturday, which will only be in the morning hours.
A Vila do Mañá is jointly organized by the Departments of Culture, Education and Urban Planning. As a background, it appears to bring the little ones closer to how the identity of the localities can be recovered and that they be a place of meeting and exchange. The educational project was designed by the POSTarqueitectos studio. It is sought that children and adolescents are actively present in the process of building common spaces, providing them with tools to develop their creativity through art and architecture.
The promoter of the initiative, Sandra González, highlighted yesterday during her presentation, accompanied by the councilor for Education, Ángela Troitiño, and Urban Planning, Pili Peón, that “the end is to provoke nefariousness and to awaken a new look at the spaces in which they develop to his life». During those six days, Silleda will become a large game board and experimentation laboratory, transforming the streets into something new to discover if you look at and walk with different eyes. It is made with characteristic elements of the municipality of Trasdeza, as a game of the goose.
The architect Sandra González also stressed that “it is important that from small we know the value of our territory to be aware and know food or tomorrow.” The workshops will be structured through the concepts of perception, space, landscape, scale, sustainability and village, together with tools such as the point, the line, the plane and the three-dimensional.
In short, it seeks to conceive the town as a play space, recovering ideas proposed by the Dutchman Aldo Van Eyck and prizes from Francesco Tonucci, creator of the A cidade dos nenos program, giving prominence to this age group to promote the recovery of the territory for citizens . The program has already been developed successfully in recent years in different parts of Galicia, from Vilagarcía to Carballo, Arzúa or Ames, as well as Arteixo, Rianxo, Malpica, Cambados or Santiago, among others.
“The children of Arzúa transform the village with games and creativity”
El Correo Gallego
“During Holy Week, all the places were filled in the second edition of this project that connects the youngest with their surroundings.
A very positive assessment. That is the result of the days set in motion to captivate during Holy Week as part of the program The town of tomorrow. An educational and dissemination project that, in the words of the Arzuá City Council’s Culture department, “through play and creativity transforms the place we live in by giving a voice to those who usually don’t have it; to children and adolescents, promoting their right to form their own judgment of the habitat in which they live and to be able to express it and make it manifest”, point out municipal sources.
The architect Sandra González is the monitor and organizer of these activities that manage to connect the youngest with their town and that have already reached several municipalities. This time the program was held on March 29, 30 and 31 and April 1 and 5 and a total of thirty minors took part in it, completing all the places called for.
With this initiative, which at the same time serves to help conciliation, “it is also sought to stimulate a critical attitude of the younger ones to promote their development as an active citizen”, they point out,
During the five days, the participants enjoyed proposals in spaces of the urban center such as Praza de Galiza, the Multi-purpose Terra do Queixo, the municipal car park or the surroundings of the Children’s School. The Councilor for Culture, Aurora Varela, pointed out that this project offers “a different, creative and sustainable leisure space that has worked on the landscape and the urban environment of our day to day life”. He confirmed that the Council “will do everything possible” to give it continuity. The first edition of A vila do morana was in September.”
“Arzúa will seek to give continuity to the educational program «A vila do mañá»”
La Voz de Galicia
“The Councilor for Culture of Arzúa, Aurora Varela made a positive assessment of the second edition of «A vila do mañá», an educational project that was developed, with the participation of thirty schoolchildren, coinciding with the Easter holidays for , in addition to stimulating a critical attitude to favor the development of an active and responsible citizenship, contributing to the reconciliation of family and work life. “The Council will do everything possible to give it continuity,” Varela advanced, after making a satisfactory assessment of the The result of a program that offers “a different, creative and sustainable reading space that works with the landscape and the urban environment of our day to day through the always interesting point of view of girls and boys”, explained the mayor.”
“Future vertical garden on Vila de Noia street in Carballo”
La Voz de Galicia 03/01/2021
“On Vila de Noia street in Carballo, colorful flower pots have been on display since Wednesday in which the more than 30 children participating in the A vila do mañá project have planted seeds so that they sprout and create the first urban vertical garden in the A vila do mañá is an initiative that aims to involve the youngest in the design of the cities of the future, so that they become aware of the spaces that surround them, of their positive values, and of the necessary protection that must be give them.”
“Children take Arzúa’s streets back again”
La Voz de Galicia 29/12/2020
“Involving children in the design of the Carballo of the future is part of the objectives of the A vila do mañá project, directed by the architect Sandra González Álvarez. The activities have been underway since last week and although part of them are carried out in a virtual way, others imply direct contact with the environment. It was last Monday when the 34 small participants collected their boxes with the necessary material to work on these Christmas holidays. They practiced at home, for example, creating structures with colored threads , and after that, on Saturday they took over the San Martiño park with their skeins of wool, turning the area into a playful space.”
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