We strongly support the proposal of the UNESCO World Heritage Center to the World Heritage Committee at the 44th session (16-31 July 2021) under the chairmanship of the People’s Republic of China to place Venice and its Lagoon on the…
In Autumn 2020, WahV started a billposting campaign in Venice presenting a selection of five typical plants of the Venetian lagoon: Zostera Marina, Salicornie, Spartina, Limonium and Salsola soda. The plants shown in the posters come from herbariums and are…
World Monuments Fund On 25th March 2021, World Monuments Fund hosts “When Will We Return to Venice and Should We?” is an in-depth discussion on the monumental obstacles Venice is facing and the seismic shifts in mindsets and actions it…
WahV marked the first anniversary of the disastrous 2019 floods in Venice with the following message: On this day one year ago, Venice was hit by a violent storm, resulting in the worst flooding since 1966. No-one escaped the…
WahV contributed to Aroop magazine's volume on Failure with an essay entitled “The Venice Paradox". The review's fourth volume of 2020 also included contributions from acclaimed writers Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee, Vivek Narayanan and Sumana Roy. It was guest-edited by Ananya…
The ASviS Sustainable Development Festival is a national awareness-raising campaign in Italy, held with the aim of spreading a culture of sustainability throughout Italy. It is part of the UN 2030 Agenda. We are here Venice teamed up with the…
For the 2020 Festival of the Italian network ASviS We are here Venice joined forces with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to propose a series of free events involving young people. All events are free and open to the public. The…
On Wednesday 16th September, MEPs voted to include shipping emissions within the European Emissions Trading Scheme from 2022, obliging shipping companies to cut their CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030. We signed a joint letter on behalf of…
“Back soon (but better)” is a call for citizens to express their ideas, desires and reflections on the city post-coronavirus. From May 2020, We are here Venice uses its cruise ship poster campaign to put up posters that have been…
Following our 2019 publication How Was It For You?, We are here Venice is publishing Whose City Is It Anyway? - a comprehensive summary of Venice's relationship with tourism, along with specific policy recommendations for how this relationship might be improved. Following lockdown…
Image by Annie Drew. In collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and Professor Caroline Nevejan (Chief Scientific Officer of Amsterdam), WahV is co-curating the Exploratorium - a multi-disciplinary outreach programme which was due to run parallel to the Dutch Pavilion…
We are here Venice is working in partnership with glass company Laguna B to reframe the value of protecting and reviving salt marsh in the Venice lagoon, with the aim of using the carbon sequestration properties of the wetlands for…
This new initiative, in collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection's internship programme, is supported by Melissa Ulfane with a view to exposing these temporary (and less temporary) citizens to the crucial issues and challenges facing Venice. During the course of…
Venice and its Lagoon was declared a World Heritage site in 1987. In 2014 the UNESCO World Heritage Committee expressed concern about the way various institutions are (mis)managing the site and since then a lot of effort has been invested…
The Polpo restaurants in London have chosen We are here Venice as the charity to benefit from their Christmas fundraising campaign and will be generously collecting money from their diners to support our work here in Venice throughout December. Please…
We are here Venice is collaborating with Palazzo Polignac to raise funds for the community of Pellestrina. Palazzo Polignac, which hosts cultural and musical events, held a fundraising concert on the 8th of December. You can help the people of…
The campaign for the referendum on changing the administrative structure for Venice and Mestre got off to a difficult start with the Mayor of Venice recommending abstention. WahV has collaborated with the spontaneous movement +Mestre+Venezia to provide accessible, reliable information…
On 1/11/2019 we released the findings of an opinion poll conducted by GPF that revealed a strong tendency for Venetian citizens to vote in the forthcoming referendum to change the way the cities of Mestre (incl. Marghera) and Venice (incl.…
We are here Venice is cooperating with the Tide Forecast and Warning Center of Venice in order to facilitate the spread of its services and the communication of the inevitable uncertainty of forecasts, exacerbated by the effect of climate change,…
On 18 September 2019 the High Court in Rome reversed the decision by the Veneto Region Administrative Tribunal (TAR) to allow the Mayor of Venice to block the Referendum on re-articulation of territorial administration for Venice and Mestre Marghera. WahV…
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