Venice as a model for the future? A series of traveling conversations on environmental issues

Beginning Friday, June 26, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., will be Walking (The) Trajectories: Venice as a Model for the Future?, a series of free touring conversations through the city of Venice organized by TBA21-Academy’s Ocean Fellowship program in collaboration with Ocean Space.

Led by Barbara Casavecchia, the group of fifteen people will stroll through the lagoon city every Friday evening, delving into the themes of the seven trajectories traced by Territorial Agency for the Oceans in Transformation exhibition, which will open at Ocean Space on August 27, 2020.

Walking (The) Trajectories: Venice as a Model for the Future? brings together, appointment after appointment, guests and local experts who will discuss topics such as the impact of mining and overlapping infrastructure on fragile coastal environments and their communities, pollution, overfishing and tourism, maritime protection and risk forecasting, and the intersection of migration and maritime routes.

Gian Marco Scarpa, a researcher at the CNR-ISMAR Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice, will be the guest speaker at the first event scheduled for Friday, June 26, entitled Laguna, coastal ecosystems and the impact of vessel traffic. During the walk, Scarpa will analyze how the exponential growth of merchant traffic of large ships is one of the main causes of morphological alterations in the lagoon environment.

These “talking walks” are intended to invite participants to engage in free-flowing conversations along the city’s canals: each appointment will end at an unexpected point, chosen by the host, due to its coincidence with a critical observation point.

The next events are scheduled for Friday, July 3 with Venice Calls, Friday, July 10 with activist artist Eleonora Sovrani of We Are Here Venice, and Friday, July 17 with artist Luigi Divari.

The activities, lasting about an hour and a half, are free of charge with prior reservation by writing to info@ocean-space.org. Meeting time for participants is 6:30 p.m. at Ocean Space, Church of San Lorenzo.

Venice as a model for the future? A series of traveling conversations on environmental issues

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