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Resumen

How can we recover the identity of the city? How can the city be a meeting or exchange place again? How can we feel safe again inside our homes, in the neighborhood, in the city? How can we make of the city is our place? What should we do so that the city stops being something associated with dirty, gray, monstrosity? These are the issues that we deal with “The City of tomorrow”. “The City of tomorrow” is an educational project whose objective is to make aware of all the scales of the common: architecture, heritage, urban planning and landscaping, since childhood and through games. The project presents through a week of workshops in different town halls in Galicia, which are carried out by the PØSTarquitectos team, with the support of ETSAC (Architecture University), COAG and APATRIGAL. The main goal of our project is to make childhood and adolescence is actively present in the construction process of public space (squares, neighborhoods, cities) providing children and teenagers with the necessary tools to develop their creativity through art and architecture. The purpose is to raise a certain curiosity in them and to awaken their interest in the spaces where urban life is evolving. To sum up, though the own tools of childhood with their intrinsic movements and intuitive games, we can say that the city is viewed as a board game, as a meeting place and as a learning laboratory. They have to discover, know and value their habitat to be able to act on it. We defend children’s rights, as part of an active community of residents who develop the future city, emphasising the importance of place. After all, we regard art and architecture as educative tools that have allowed us to carry out this project.