E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Complete Schiedam

Schiedam (NL) – Runner-up

Team Representative: Milena Zaklanovic (NL) – architect;  Associates: Matteo Bettoni (IT) – architect; Michiel Van Driessche (NL) – landscape architect; Bart Pouw (NL) – urban designer
Collaborators: Deborah Lambert (BE) – spatial planner

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^{B. Pouw, M. Zaklanovic, M. Van Driessche and M. Bettoni}

"We focused on a very peculiar relation between Schiedam and its industrial past presented in a unique proximity of the industrial area and the city center. It exposed the industry and challenged it to find ways to contribute to the contemporary Schiedam. We tried to reveal such situation and articulate the regeneration of the industrial area beyond the stereotypical ideas of reuse and gentrification, towards strategies for reactivation and enhancement of the industrial assets and programmatic scenarios for the enrichment of the city center. We believed that the site, on a strategic location like that, has a crucial role for the future of the city."