All chapters about the different experiments in 'Cahier 2 - The Venice Exploratorium' can be found here.
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Values for Survival - The Venice Exploratorium Map
When leaving the Dutch pavilion in the Giardini in Venice, visitors are offered a map that indicates the locations where experiments were conducted for the research program Values for Survival, documented in Cahier 2. The backside of the map sketches all the different elements of Values for Survival, published in Cahier 1, 2 and 3.
The map is designed by Huda AbiFarès and Studio Wild.
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We are here Venice
We are here Venice (WahV) is a non-profit association that addresses Venice’s challenges as a living city and advocates evidence-based approaches to policy making.
We operate both as a think tank and activist platform, strengthening connections between the best available information and stakeholders. We collaborate with universities, businesses, cultural institutions and public authorities to deliver projects and recommendations based on rigorous research to bring about real changes according to social, economic, physical and ecological indicators.
The city and the lagoon are considered inseparable elements of a single system, highlighting the importance of negotiations between the natural environment and human intervention. Venice’s singular circumstances offer huge potential as a laboratory for exploring innovative approaches to community resiliency.
Our initiatives range from self-contained projects and exhibitions often with the aim of raising awareness, to other more substantial ongoing campaigns, research and PhD programmes.Link to official website
FOUNDERS
Jane da MostoLiza FiorMichela ScibiliaMANAGEMENT BOARD
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Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium: Cahier 2 - Complete
Here you can download the complete Cahier 2. This cahier was made as part of the complementary research program of the Dutch contribution to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
The full pdf can be downloaded below.
To buy the Cahier, click on the NAi Booksellers link below the PDF.
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Chapter 6: Architectures of Trust – Introduction
Can intuition and experience be shared between people who do not know each other and cannot meet? This question is asked in first chapter of Cahier 2: Architectures of Trust - Introduction (Chapter 6).
Read the full chapter in the article below.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 7: Arsenals of Globalization
Tools, still in use in Venice and found in archaeological excavations in Amsterdam, are presented as a catalogue in which the visual technical Venetian expertise is juxtaposed by the Dutch scientific presentation of the same tools of 300 years ago. Discovering the convergence in maritime tools at such a basic level of detail exposes previously unrecognisable areas of common ground in these two European deltas and unveils the significance of craft for understanding history.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 7 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of the Arsenals of Globalization project group.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 8: Vanishing Homelands
Venetians and the Bangladesh diaspora in Venice are connected by the threat of sea level rise. The Bangladesh fled from their home country as a consequence of climate change, to a country with a similar thread of rising waters. Without sharing one language, the team engages with Venetian Bangladeshi climate refugees and with Venetian families who are experiencing the increased destruction of floods through generations.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 8 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of Vanishing Homelands.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 9: Tides of Tourism
Studying tourism in Venice, Amsterdam and Glasgow, a new, more organic approach to the development of policies for tourism is developed during a unique moment in time when there is very little tourism because of the COVID-19 lockdown. Spatial, temporal and demographic analyses are executed in relation to one another to enhance or to weaken tides of tourism in certain areas, at certain times, for certain groups.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 9 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of Tides of Tourism.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 10: Talking Sands - Fisheye
Underwater ecological challenges are made more visible by a new aesthetic, mapping the complexity of factors that influence the life of Vongole in the Venice Lagoon.
Vongole are the little shells that grow in the Laguna and that are crucial for the Venetian Pasta di Vongole. The team includes social, economical, geological and biological data, and applies artistic graphic skills for rendering the complex changing reality more understandable.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 10 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of Talking Sands - Fisheye.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 11: What do we need?
Because of COVID-19 all meetings with residents for input in the new Spatial Vision, which aligns the initiatives for new buildings, urban landscape and infrastructure for the coming years, were cancelled. Then the municipality asked seven cultural smart catalysts to invent various ways to catch stories in all 7 boroughs of Amsterdam during lockdown. The seven story catchers ask residents and entrepreneurs ‘What do you need in the future to come?’
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 11 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. Biographies of the seven Story Catchers.
3. All collected stories per city district
4. Homepage collection 'Democracy in Practice', with different publications focussing on the question: Is it possible to ensure an accessible and humane government for all residents of the city?
5. The Dutch Publication 'Wat hebben wij nodig?'This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 12: Protest or not to Protest
We are here Venice’s continuing campaign to anchor the debate about the future for cruise ships and the Black Lives Matter demonstrations during the weeks of the Exploratorium, fuelled discussions on protest and art. Sharing experiences and reflecting upon these, a bold statement is formulated and a beautiful collection of questions is gathered that every individual is confronted with, once you decide to be engaged.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 12 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of Protest or not to Protest.
3. Final presentation and background information on the process and development of the project.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 13: Space of Other
The patterns of the Space of Other resonate with the performers’ childhood memories of the vibrant borough Fin do Mundo in Lisbon. His long-time partner in performance travels to the borough where he guides her through his memories by phone searching for elements of recognition in a place that has been demolished more or less completely over time. It appears that the power of shared imagination is able to revitalize memories of a place that is destroyed.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 8 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of the Space of Other project group.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 14: Unfolding Arch of Forging Fantasy
A trail of possible meetings, a tragedy, inspiring books, websites, a WhatsApp conversation that led to the Comedia del’arte, missed scenario’s and plots, a scanned, sold out book full of fans, inspire a new perspective on communication in times of climate crisis. Created in a dialogue with text and images, as we did for centuries, a plea for playfulness and fantasy emerges.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 14 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of the Unfolding Arch project group.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 15: Forbidden Garden
Is it possible to design a garden for ‘forbidden plants’ in abandoned Hortus Botanicus of Venice? When it becomes clear that it is not possible to enter the premises, the focus on the wall surrounding the Hortus Botanicus unveils an extraordinarily history. Even though all libraries are closed during COVID-19 lockdown, diverse historical sources inspire the fine drawing that represents the depth of thinking that has been put into the space and its situation.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 15 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of the Forbidden Garden project group.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 16: Radical Observation
Inspired by the work of the Food Forest in Amsterdam Zuidoost, a new community has gathered on the Green Triangle in Venice. Guided by the Amsterdam experience, local community organizers include residents in learning about green spaces in a city, on how one can become a group to take care of such a space. This experience is an occasion to start exploring a new methodology for engaging people in relation to the revitalization specific areas.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 16 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan with the participants of the Radical Observation project group.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 17: Zoöp
Zoöp is a formal collaboration between human and non-human actors in a specific place, which aims to acquire even a legal status as convivial configuration between human and non-human actors. Conversations about experiments in a Berlin communal space, the Paris Zone Sensible, an Amsterdam house garden and the salt marshes in Venice, trigger a lot of new thinking and reaffirm existing ideas on approaches for protecting human with more-than-human configurations.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 15 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan with the participants of the Zoöp project group.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Would you like to buy a hard-copy of the Cahier? Go to NAi Booksellers bookshop, where you can order a copy.
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Chapter 18: Sant'Erasmo 2038
Different researchers and filmmakers decide to explore the reality of Sant’Erasmo, a large island in the Venetian lagoon inhabited mainly by market gardeners with very few tourists. Finding creative ways to communicate through streaming camera’s, they travel together and meet in 2038, while not being in the same place in the summer of 2020. Artichokes, a playground and robot fish seem to dominate the scene.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 18 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The Interview by Caroline Nevejan and Jane da Mosto with the participants of the Sant'Erasmo project group.
3. The Draft Video's of the Sant'Erasmo project groupThis Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 19: Scripts of the Lagoon
Can the lagoon have voice to protect itself? Is it possible to imagine a script of the lagoon? Two marine scientists have identified the particular sounds of over 100 types of fish. With the sound of the fish the composer makes a composition. The composition generates a virtual underwater world. The sounds and movements can be the basis for a new imaginary script. A very powerful emotional stimulation arises from a dimension of lagoon life that is otherwise unknown.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 19 in the publication: 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'
2. The final Video Presentation of Scripts of the Lagoon
3. The audio work of Scripts of the LagoonThis Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Chapter 20: City Science
In the last few years many cities have positioned a small group to connect research in the universities to policy needs. After three conferences and five online thematic workshops during the lockdown, the cities conclude that City Science needs to be recognized as its own paradigm in which academic and scientific research is complimented with design practices on different levels for bridging research to policy making.
In this collection you can find:
1. Chapter 20 in the publication 'Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium'.
2. The complete 'City Science for Urban Challenges' report.This Cahier is created in collaboration with We are here Venice.
Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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International Online Exploratorium for 21st Century Values for Survival
Between the months of April and August 2020 the Exploratorium for 21st Century Values for Survival will take place in the context of the Dutch contribution to 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice. The goal is to bring together practitioners from different backgrounds and disciplines with researchers, artists, and activists from Venice. Throughout the Exploratorium we will engage into methodologies and contexts in Venice; by doing things and reflecting on what we have done, we will explore values for the 21 st century.