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…
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…
La Biennale di Venezia is a global cultural event which draws the world’s gaze to Venice. How Was It For You? is an investigation into the ways in which the institution serves the interests of the city and its residents.…
On September 30, 2018, the first professional internship at the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the City of Venice and the Lagoon was completed, with the support of We are here Venice, which facilitated the framework agreement between…
"Sea Change" Conference in Blackpool, UK Laura Onofri, environmental economist, presented the paper "Venice helps save the World" in collaboration with We are here Venice about the potential of the lagoon ecosystem as a carbonsink — at the "Sea Change"…
In 2018 WahV began a collaboration with the artist collective Barena Bianca, following their meeting during a workshop at IUAV Visual Arts dept. Barena Primavera-Estate Barena Primavera-Estate was a workshop produced by We are here Venice and curated by the…
"Nothing to see here", Sandberg Institute, Venice 22.09.2019 WahV meets the students of the Design Department of the Sandberg Institute to share their point of view on the dynamics of the city and stimulate a dialogue with the group of…
Spring marks the beginning of peak tourist season in Venice. Flows aren’t going to reduce before mid-winter. WahV consulted with Israeli TV for their series of news reports on overtourism in European hotspots: Venice, Barcelona, Dubrovnik. It is striking to…
Critical Care. Architecture and urbanism for a broken planet” is a book published by MIT Press and was an exhibition at Architekturzentrum Wien edited and curated by Elke Krasny and Angelika Fitz. The book was reviewed in Architectural Digest. The book contains 21 case studies as well…
‘Venice is a real city’ is a campaign and research project that began in September 2017 to develop a clearer idea of what it is that makes Venice. A sociological study is underway exploring the existing characteristics that people are attached to, their memories, and future aspirations for…