El Correo Gallego 10/03/2019 “It is an innovative initiative, led by the architect Sandra González, where cities and towns become game boards and experimentation laboratories for young people to contribute their gaze on the spaces in which they live. Through a series of games in urban spaces, the aim is to find out how kids see the places where they live and, above all, how they want them to be in the future.“
La Voz de Galicia 09/03/2019 ““A Vila do Mañá“ project, born as an experience in Rianxo in December 2016 by the architect Sandra González, will be unveiled in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo this month. This experience, which has also taken place in Ribeira and A Pobra do Caramiñal, is sponsored by the Association for the Defense of the Galician Cultural Heritage, chaired by Carlos Fernández Coto“
La Voz de Galicia 07/03/2019 “Nothing can ever change if the protagonists of the turn grow back to what is expected of them. It seems obvious, but too often it is forgotten. Last year, Vilagarcía provided a rare opportunity to put into practice a simple and sensible principle. For several days, fifty kids took the streets and squares as could only be done when cars did not yet dominate the urban space. That experience, carried out under the direction of the architect Sandra González Álvarez, is now summarized in a book that the Council will distribute through schools and social centers.”
Faro de Vigo 07/03/2019 “Vilagarcía has a new bibliographic reference for the youngest people thanks to the presentation of the book that collects the activities carried out in “A vila do mañá“ program developed in the town. The Councilor for Mobility, Paola María, highlighted in the presentation that “it is an idea very much in line with our city model because the concept of the city is not achieved only with works, but with awareness, especially of the children who will be the future mayors of these cities. In Europe, it is conveyed to us that the well-being of cities is measured in public spaces for people. We believe that the most important thing is to live in cities and enhance the interaction of the children with cities“.“
Diario de Arousa 07/03/2019 “Vilagarcía Council will distribute a total of a thousand copies of a book in which they collect in detail the activities related to the “A vila do mañá“ experience, carried out with children from the municipality. This was pointed out by the mayor of the city, Alberto Varela, who alluded to the fact that the initiative was a good example of the city model that his government defends. The publications are financed by European Feder funds and will be distributed both by the educational centres and by the neighbourhood centres of the town.”
La Voz de Galicia 28/11/2019 “Throughout the past week the “Plaza de A Independencia” had some very special visitors. The students from San Francisco School were the protagonists of “A Vila do Mañá“, which ended yesterday with a very special activity.”
Faro de Vigo 28/11/2018 “About 340 students from San Francisco School carried out various activities in the Plaza de la Independencia, which, for a few months, has already closed to traffic the street that is intended to be added to the recreation area. Hand in hand with the program developed by the architect Sandra González Álvarez, the children worked in this space with the line, the plane and the three-dimensional element, imagining what the city of tomorrow would be like, in which they raised many gardens and a “Vilaking“.”
La Voz de Galicia 20/11/2018 ““Are the works going to start?“ Drivers asked themselves that question days ago, when signs appeared announcing that parking in the Plaza da Independencia was going to be prohibited. They asked with the same perplexity with which a woman, yesterday afternoon, looked at the tangle of coloured threads that cross the square in all directions. I did not know it, but those brightly coloured strings are part of a time machine that will transport more than three hundred schoolchildren from the neighboring San Francisco School to “A Vila do mañá“ over the next few days.“
Faro de Vigo 20/11/2018 “Students from San Francisco School took the Praza da Independencia yesterday morning within “A vila do mañá“ program, an initiative of the councils of Urbanism and Education of the Vilagarcía City Council to claim the streets as places of meeting, coexistence and recreation. Thus, children go back to playing in the street, as was usual until not so many years ago.”
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