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 (...)

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 (...)

The political debate of these last months left behind the economic future of Venice. The habit to the extensive exploitment of revenues, not just in the historical centre, broke the habit of reasoning about possible alternatives. What is most striking, is that the problem was not advanced at a (...)

The debate on the ongoing dynamics of urban transformation is becoming louder and louder, since these dynamics have had an acceleration and dimensions unthinkable until some years ago, and happened after several quick changes in economy and society, in the trasports’development, in lifestyles, (...)

Guardian to centuries old tradition of Murano'glass art, and proud heir to school "Abate Zanetti" opened 1862 for muranese glass masters and from which it takes is name, the scholl intends to promote Murano as a focal point of Glass art in the international scene. The mission is to shed lights (...)

The idea of the Chart of Urban Transformations originated from the need to have at disposal a communication channel with the city, in order to talk about the development of particularly relevant and complex projects, as to the high number of people involved, the importance of the areas and the (...)

After the starting-up of various projects in many European cities, Venice too embarked on the path of the Strategic Plan as a mean for focusing on medium term goals, activities and perspectives, all of which are shared and supported by a multitude of active participants. The Strategic Plan is a (...)