E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

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Aalborg (DK) – Winner

Team Representative: Gianmaria Socci (IT) – architect urbanist; Associate: Andrijana Sekulic (ME) – architect

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G. Socci and A. Sekulic

"The proposal builds up on the belief that no real renewal can happen without the participation of the ones directly involved: the citizens. We aimed at creating a background for their commitment by staging alternative narratives trough gentle and incremental architectural interventions, that would eventually relink the history of the city toward the creation of new memories, and therefore of a new identity. The topic of adaptation and urban rhythms is thus inserted in a historical framework, as we consider it not as an extra quality of city planning, but rather as the essence of urbanity itself, within a general understanding of the city as an incremental artifact."