E15 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Forging the Fallow

Charleroi (BE) - Runner-up

Team Representative: Michaël Stas (BE) – Architect Urbanist; Associates: Benjamin Vanbrabant (BE) - Civil Engineers architect; Cecilia Furlan (IT) – Architectural and Urban Theorist; Sven Mertens (BE) – Urbanist

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^{C. Furlan, M. Stas, B. Vanbrabant & S. Mertens}

"Although presented to be ‘productive’ and guided by systems thinking on landscape, water, waste, energy and mobility, the project does not see the territory as a productive machine but rather as a productive landscape which, at the same time, functions as a park for people. The envisioned ‘Productive Park’ forms a multi-layered framework for the urban territory, to which activities, programs and institutions can be attached. […] The stretch for a productive park is in that sense […] a window of opportunities that the landscape offers to construct, to produce, a new kind of urbanity that is gratefully and respectfully making use of the resourcefulness of the territory."