Faro de Vigo
¨‘A Vila do Mañá’ will turn the streets into a game board from June 28 to July 3 | It is free and is aimed at children from 5 to 14 years old.
How can we recover the identity of our towns and cities? How could they once again be a place of meeting and sharing? Some of these issues led the PØSTarquitectos studio to create the A Vila do Mañá project, so that, through the dynamics of play, children become aware of architecture, tangible and intangible heritage, urban planning and landscape. This recreational educational initiative, which has already been developed in recent years in different Galician towns and in Sao Paulo (Brazil), will arrive in Silleda from June 28 to July 3.
A Vila do Mañá will offer free workshops coordinated by monitors in the morning (9:00-14:00) and afternoon (17:00-20:00) in the streets of Silleda; Saturday, the last day, only in the morning session. It is open to children from the municipality between the ages of 5 and 14, with prior registration, which can be formalized starting next week. In principle, 40 places are offered.
The main challenge is that childhood and adolescence are actively present in the process of building common spaces, providing them with the necessary tools to develop their creativity through art and architecture. “The goal is to provoke them and awaken a new perspective on the spaces in which they develop their lives,” explains the architect Sandra González Álvarez, promoter of the initiative, who participated in its presentation together with the Councilors for Education, Ángela Troitiño, and Urban Planning, Pilar Peón, organizing departments together with Culture, directed by Mónica González Conde.
Silleda, a vila do mañá will take the town as a game board and a laboratory for experimentation, transforming it into “something new to discover if you look at it and explore it with different eyes”. The board will be made with characteristic elements of the municipality, conceived as an original and unprecedented game of the goose. “It is important that from a young age we know the value of our territory to be aware and know how to take care of it tomorrow,” explains Sandra González. The activities will be structured around six fundamental concepts: perception, space, landscape, scale, sustainability and the villa, with tools such as the point, the line, the plane and the three-dimensional element.
He conceives the villa as a play space, recovering ideas proposed by the Dutchman Aldo van Eyck and the premises of the Italian Francesco Tonucci –creator of La ciudad de los niños– with the aim that children act as the vanguard of the recovery of the territory for the citizenry. . Vilagarcía, Carballo, Arzúa, Ames, Rianxo, Cambados, Arteixo, Malpica or Santiago are some of the towns that guarantee its success.
