Montale, Provincia di Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy

This process generated a collective sketch map featuring the places relevant to children. The process allowed exploring these sites and focusing on a place along a little river which is abandoned and in bad condition. Children planned how to reclaim and restore the riverbanks, cleaning it from rubbish and and planting a little garden with the help of neighbours.

The model includes the administrative boundaries of Montale, Province of Pistoia, Tuscany. It includes a mountainous zone covered by forests that gradually leave the place to small villages on the hills between olives trees and vines. The town at the bottom of the valley is where services new houses and industrial zones are concentrated. Children spend their free-time in their houses and they have few moments of direct and autonomous experience of the outdoor, especially in the urban environment. The model permit a vision of their landscape as a whole, with a story in evolution, and it arises the consciousness of the possibility to experience and transform your own place of living.