“Venice as a capital” is both a reality and an inspiration. It implies existing and evolving territorial, social and economic patterns and a fascinating as well as ambitious vision for the future that is not completely outlined yet. “Venice as a capital” is the attempt to overcome the strong (...)

For some time now, an extremely fragmented territory as the Northeast has been seeking for stronger connecting elements than the merely material ones represented by its infrastructures. The infinite city seems to have understood that without elements of significance the local future looks more (...)

OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development was founded after World War II to develop economic cooperation and coordination strategies between European countries. Between the goals of the OECD program was mainly to encourage the best management of the American financial aid (...)

Venetian municipal authorities have been extremely involved in developing Information technologies projects and solutions to deal with the territory necessities. “Amministrare 2.0”, “//Venice > connected” or “Dematerializzare 2.0” are some examples of these projects. Such initiatives show the (...)

On the 20th of April the public call for offers organized by Provincia of Venice officially ended with the alienation of the 2.200 squared meters building situated in Via Pascoli in Mestre. The building has been sold to the Fondazione di Venezia, who paid it 5 million euros. The site has been (...)

The history of the wood of Mestre started in the 80’s as an initiative of some institutions, such as the local committee for Public Works of the Venice City Council and the Regional Agency of Forests in Veneto (ARF), engaged with the themes of environmental safeguard and requalification of the (...)

Which role could play the city of Venice in relation with the economy of creativity, and up to which measure does the economy of creativity linked to intellectual activities suggest new working forms and conditions. The years of work of the Agenda Venezia website and the subsequent publication (...)

It is phantasmagoric to sit in San Marco Square and to see a cruise ship passing by, with its funnel dominating the mythic bell tower. From there you can see the ghost of the decaying Venice to be maintained, and the hypermodern allegory of global tourism that arrives, visits, eats and runs (...)