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Rotterdam Vierhavensblok (NL) - Runner-up

Team Representative: Alessandra Farina (IT) – architect & urban designer; Associates: Alexandra Chairetaki (GR) – urban designer & landscape architect

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^{A. Farina & A. Chairetaki}

"The aim of our design strategy was to promote cooperation between the different groups in order to resist the existing neoliberal economic model and produce equal access to resources. Starting from the idea of an experimental “Community Energy Trust” our project is based on the idea that infrastructures do not exist only in their materiality form; rather, they are the platform enabling a new circular system of social and knowledge production. "