Why Venice?
6th December 2018, WahV speaks out regarding the OECD Conference in Venice and appeals to participating institutions to help Venice get a voice as a community. The great and the good have come together today under the auspices of the…
Venezia H20: WahV’s exciting new collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
WahV is especially delighted to be collaborating with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection under the umbrella of the Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile. We have devised a set of six family workshops with the Guggenheim’s team of educators on the theme…
London restaurant POLPO support We are here Venice
Polpo, the popular London restaurants inspired by Venetian bacari, are hosting an evening of cocktails and cicchetti at their Notting Hill restaurant on 3rd October, with all proceeds from the event going to We are here Venice. London-based supporters can…
Implications and information gaps of the One Belt One Road project
A telephone interview for the Dutch news-site De Correspondent about the giant Chinese infrastructural project One Belt One Road and the implications for Europe brought to mind the work of Saskia Sassen on the concept of The Global City: Introducing…
Video showing the water displacement from a cruise ship prompts widespread reaction
This video, taken in the small harbour behind the Island of San Giorgio, shows the wide-reaching water displacement of a cruise ship leaving Venice as it passes Sant'Elena: The video was immediately shared over 180 times on Facebook, provoking widespread…
NBC Today filming at the Arsenale
This morning started with NBC Today in the Galleazze Ovest of the Arsenale. An opportunity to show how Venice’s glorious past can mark the way for the future IF the city authorities open the huge redundant spaces for new productive…
Laguna Viva at the V-A-C Foundation
Laguna Viva opens at the V-A-C Foundation's Palazzo delle Zattere Laguna Viva is integral to the long-term strategy whereby Palazzo delle Zattere engage with the complexities of everyday life in Venice. V-A-C Foundation commissioned London based collective Assemble, who work across the…
Opening of Antigua & Barbuda’s National Pavilion
Students officially thanked by the Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda’s inaugural National Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale explores environmental justice as a civil right through an investigation into the acute crisis of climate change.…
Connected – A documentary project on sea level rise
The trailer for Connected, a documentary project on sea level rise, has been released featuring substantial interview material from We are here Venice's co-founder and Executive Director, Jane da Mosto. Watch the full trailer below:
Sticker Campaign
What have we done? We are here Venice sent over 50 letters to the curators of national pavilions, collateral events and parallel exhibitions whose press previews coincide with the Architecture Biennale vernissage, inviting them to help spread the word and…
Explore our Venice Resource on the Royal Geographical Society Website
The Royal Geographical Society partnered with We are here Venice to produce a Venice module which has now been launched on the Royal Geographical Society's new website. The resource features videos, fact sheets, podcasts, interviews, activities and lesson plans and…
Beyond artistic display: Art and Law in practice
Moving beyond the sphere of artistic display and exhibition, Venice returns to the forefront of professional development, as illustrated by the series of meetings, ART AND LAW, organised by the Venice Arbitration Chamber. With talks from collectors, museum directors, lawyers and…
Book Launch: Donne come noi
WOMEN LIKE US: 100 STORIES OF ITALIANS WHO HAVE DONE SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL Donna Moderna, one of Italy's most popular weekly magazines, are celebrating their 30th anniversary with a book collecting stories of 100 Italian women who, tenaciously, have done something…
Critical research on changes in lagoon circulation
In 2017 a new volume, edited by Luigi D’Alpaos, was released by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti containing an important study produced with support from WahV. Analysis of historic tide gauge data from the lagoon-wide network of monitoring stations has…
Let the Mediterranean Breathe
Nitrogen oxide monitoring pilot study Air quality in port cities is a major cause for concern, especially as more evidence emerges from epidemiological studies that show a direct correlation between illnesses associated with air pollution and proximity of homes to…
Outcome of the long-awaited Government decision on the future for cruiseships (Comitatone 7.11.2017)
It has been a long wait since the last Comitatone (the inter-ministerial committee for planning, coordinating and monitoring Safeguarding of the Venice Lagoon) in August 2014, and yet a definite solution is as elusive as ever, even though the Minister…
European meeting of the movements for the defense of territories, environmental justice and democracy
We are here Venice, together with the author Amitav Ghosh quoted here, endorses this call by the Comitato No Grandi Navi - Laguna Bene Comune, for the meeting of 23rd September at the Magazzini del Sale, Venice: Here in Venice,…
The mayor of Civitavecchia invites the Government and the mayors of other port cities to intervene for limiting atmospheric emissions
We are here Venice fully shares the following request expressed by Cittadini per l'aria and asks to the local institutions in Venice, like the Port Authority, the Venice Passengers Terminal, the mayor, how they intend to proceed. In this case…