I’ve known Eva since her euphoric involvement in the activation of the NDSM Wharf in North Amsterdam. She was a great example of convincing bottom-up urban development for our research project Urban Catalyst – self-determination, an intelligent network and full of vitality. Eva recently helped us substantially by giving us pointers at an expert workshop [&hellip… →
Klaus Overmeyer, UC Berlin
Layana Mokoginta, PR Mansion
Power, passion and vision, this characterises Eva best when she sketches how urban development could be done. Economic, social and cultural development can go hand in hand, that is her absolute conviction. She’s surprisingly down to earth, when she combines an economic approach with her business views on creativity and entrepreneurship. But she does this [&hellip… →
Jeroen Saris, de stad bv
Few people are as autonomous as Eva. It’s not in the solitude of her studio, but right at the centre of society that she is at her best and inspires others to do the same. Eva doesn’t wait around for something to happen, but stimulates others to take fate into their own hands and create [&hellip… →
Krishna Kaur, film maker
Eva was born in Amsterdam in 1965 but spent the first decade of her life in England, returning at the age of ten she went on to study psychology and communica- tions and has spent the last fifteen years at the fore front of arts and culture development movement. Working through localized communities in deprived [&hellip… →
Interview Amsterdam Newspaper Het Parool
This interview gave rise to the TV documentary about Eva. Interview by Patrick Meershoek, photos by Daniel Cohen. This interview is only available in Dutch… →
Amsterdam’s Person of the year 2011
Eva was nominated ‘Amsterdammer of the year’ by the readers of Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool. Interview by Hans van der Beek, December 2011: Eva de Klerk (Amsterdam, 1965) is one of the founders of the incubator on grounds of the NDSM Shipyard. Since then, she helps thinking about fringe areas of cities all around the world, [&hellip… →
Television documentary about Eva
Sorry, this documentary for the Dutch Television is only available in Dutch. Portrait Eva starts after 17.10 minutes… →