Biocultural Diversity as a lens for future visions

Today, links between human communities and the natural environment remain strong only among people who have maintained close material and spiritual ties with their environments, such as Indigenous Peoples and some distinctive local communities, including inhabitants of the Venice Lagoon. Through …

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Birdwatching and biodiversity in the Venice Lagoon

Emanuele Stival, a passionate birdwatcher and member of the Venetian Society for Natural Sciences, established Venezia Birdwatching in 2015, to share his knowledge and observation practices. We invited Emanuele to share his story: about how he began as a birdwatcher and the changes he’s witne…

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Natural Capital: assessing future opportunities

The recent string of natural disasters combined with the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted more than ever the need for business to take into consideration all forms of capital, revealing with greater clarity that "business as usual" is vulnerable to a range of outside influences, not just …

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Vital at the Floating Cinema 4th Edition

Vital is pleased to collaborate to the 4th edition of the Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters initiative, giving voice to …

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The exploration continues with "Giants of the Lagoon.”

Developed in the framework of WaterLANDS (GA 101036484), Giants of the Lagoon is a participatory experience that invites the exploration of the lagoon environment in a movement towards the observed subject: from the observation of the landscape, through the use of binoculars, to the sear…

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Ecologies of the Imaginary. Venice, the Lagoon and the Fantasy

Last year’s collaboration with Valentina Sturli and Prof. Alessandro Metlica of the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DISLL) at the University of Padua have been collected in a volume "Ecologies of the Imaginary. Venice, the Lagoon and the Fantastic ", already

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World Wetlands Day: promote memory and local action

Every February the world marks World Wetlands Day to capture global attention for wetland conservation. Beyond the broad social media campaigns that generate widespread awareness around the…

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The Resilience of the Venice Lagoon Between Climate Change and Innovation

On April 2nd, We are here Venice (WahV) took part in the workshop organized by the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the CNR and the University of Padua, within the framework of

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Citizen science project in the lagoon

The team of We are here Venice ETS, in the context of the EU project WaterLANDS

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Making socio-cultural values of the lagoon more visible

Over millennia and around the world, people have developed myriad ways of relating to nature and its different types of value, with consequences for how and what decisions affecting the state of nature are made. The Vital initiative is seeking ways to account for this within strategies to

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New funding for research in the Lagoon through investment in CSR

Coinciding with the 80th Venice International Film Festival, Giorgio Armani staged th…

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"The Conservation Revolution", relevant considerations for the conservation of the Venice Lagoon

Vital team reviewed a book that serves to imagine a better ecological future for the city and lagoon of Venice. Vital’s objectives to conserve and restore the saltmarshes in the Venice Lagoon are tied to promoting a different practice and narrative regarding the Lagoon's natural environme…

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The Marsh Series

The Marshes Series is a collection of fictional short stories exploring the Venetian lagoon’s most distinctive and endangered ecosystem: the salt marshes, or barene, as locals call them. It was produced by Laguna~B in collaborati…

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We are here Venice contributes to Italy's National Nature Restoration Plan, drawing on WaterLANDS expertise

We are here Venice (WahV) contributed to the official consultation process for Italy's Nature Restoration Plan, linked to the European Nature Restoration Regulation (EU) 2024/1991) to recover degraded ecosystems. It came into force in 2024 and seeks to combat biodiversity loss and climate change …

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'A Whole Barena' - collaboration with the photographer Matteo de Mayda

The photographer Matteo de Mayda, in collaboration with We are here Venice within the Vital initiatives, recently presented the project 'A Whole Barena' as part of 'Nuova Generazione. Contemporary looks at the Alinari Archives", by CAMERA and the Alinari Foundation for Photography. The project wa…

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Getting Our Feet Wet

WahV was invited to contribute to Architecture of Stewardship, the publication accompanying the Pavili…

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‘The Mudflat Crew’

‘The Mudflat Crew’ is a Vital publication created by Pietro Leddi, inspired by exploration of the Vital pilot sites, the richness of the lagoon ecosystem, and Venetian folk stories and legends. It is designed to make people more mindful of the Lagoon, triggering curiosity especially among the you…

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Photographic fieldwork

Over recent months, I have had the opportunity to join Vital scientists and researchers on field trips to monitor an artificial salt marsh in the central lagoon. Salt marshes behave like organisms, absorbing water and then slowly releasing it following the tidal cycle. They play an important role…

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Artificial salt marshes: from satellite screening to field interventions

The artificial salt marshes in the Venetian Lagoon do not all evolve in the same way. This is the finding of a new study published in Restoration Ecology, which, for the first time, systematically assesses the 63 morphological reconstructions in the central Malamocco basin using high-res…

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We share the contribution by Jane da Mosto, We are here Venice ETS’s Executive Director and Emma Rose Cyr, Social Anthropology Researcher from the Stockholm University, for the new Ecocritical Guide to the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice, published by Wetlands and edited by Camilla Pietrabissa…

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