In the Triveneto area as in the rest of Italy, the demand for culture and the participation in cultural events are increasing despite economic crisis and the reduction of public fundings. This is the conclusion emerging from the VII Annual Federculture Report, a volume titled “La cultura serve al presente” (“The present needs culture”) by Roberto Grossi, with preface by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. According to Federculture Report, in 2010 more than 21% of Venetians has been to the theatre at least (...)

Last year (from the 1st of June to the 25th of September) the “Casa dei Tre Oci”, located on the Giudecca Island, reopened to host the artworks of more than 20 Russian contemporary artists. The Modernikon exhibition offers its visitors the opportunity to explore the Venetian Casa, purchased – with the exception of the third floor of the building - by Polymnia Venezia in 2000. This instrumental company has been created by Fondazione di Venezia in order to host the collections of the Fondo De (...)

RAMSES (acronym of Rilievo Altimetrico, Modellazione Spaziale E Scansione3D – Altimetric Survey, Spatial Modeling and 3D scan) is an initiative that aimed to trace a three-dimensional relief of the historic centre of the city of Venice: its has been promoted by the municipal administration that contracted Insula to manage the project. RAMSES has been financed with Special Law funds amounting to approximately one million euro. The relief has been performed by a temporary joint venture (...)

The commitment of Fondazione Venezia 2000 to the Venetian Metropolis didn’t end with the OECD report, indeed this was only the stepping-stone in the development of a support project for the construction of the metropolitan city. In his intervention, published on the Quaderno 8, Cesare De Michelis stresses the great opportunity, offered by the publication of a documented study as the one dedicated to Venice by the OECD, for the elaboration of new actions to be implemented in the area or for (...)