The project ESCOLANOVA intends to rehabilitate, dynamize and regenerate the old primary school in Bordeira, transforming the vacant building into a space for meetings, experimentation, knowledge exchange and artistic creation. To be created with the local population, it will be an Arts Center where the intersection between the local culture and the artistic creation may fight isolation and help promote healthy lifestyles, create local jobs, and neighborhood networks of solidarity, but above all, may be the foundation of a common place to be renovated with the effort of the residents and artists that, together, will develop laboratories and performances. The work will be developed in two phases: the first with the rehabilitation of the school building with a community kitchen and a library-wardrobe; the second with new building, projected to have a rehearsal room and theatrical performances, that will also be used as am assembly room for the village. A documentary film will tell the story of the rehabilitation of the old building and the emergence of the ESCOLANOVA.