Il Sole 24 ore 25.02.2021 The barriers have already been used 20 times, concerns about the ecosystem
The Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 ore, after a letter sent to its director by our association regarding an article published on February 16 that was partial in its reporting about the functionality of MOSE, quoted Jane da Mosto: “We…
Billposting campaign dedicated to the salt marsh flora
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 and Salsola soda. The plants shown in the posters come from herbariums and are therefore…
Sponsored run by Camilla Bertolini
On 7th March 2021 Camilla Bertolini, Chief Scientist of WahV, challenged herself to run 22km (14miles) following the cycling route where the Sile river meets the lagoon (from Portegrandi to CapoSile), and then along the edge of the lagoon to…
International symposia and conferences
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…
Recovery Fund
We are here Venice has signed a joint appeal with other associations to be sent to the Italian President of Ministers Mario Draghi, to draw attention to Venice on the occasion of the presentation of the Italian Recovery Plan. The…
Newsletter Autumn 2020
Remembering the Acqua Alta of 2019 Scorri giù per la versione italiana. On this day one year ago, Venice was hit by a violent storm, resulting in the worst flooding since 1966. No-one escaped the consequences: some people's lives were…
EndsEurope 29.01.2021 In-depth: Trade unions and NGOs seek just transition for tourism after covid
EndsEurope spoke to We are here Venice about trade unions and NGOs seeking transition for tourism after covid. Jane da Mosto said “the impact of covid restrictions has been devastating so making a transition now to a more sustainable model…
Venice Salt Marshes as a Carbon Sink: one-year review
We are working with glass company Laguna B on a project to explore the potential of Venice's salt marshes as a carbon sink. One year on from our first group meeting we have established a team of scientists, academics and…
Rethinking Venice from an Ecosystem Services Perspective (2020)
J. da Mosto, C. Bertolini, A. Markandya, P. A. L. D. Nunes, T. Spencer, A Palaima, L. Onofri, Nota di Lavoro 23.2020, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy The “natural capital" conceptual approach to putting the lagoon at the centre…
Arte.tv 19.01.2021 Change cruise course
Jane da Mosto, co-founder and executive director di WahV, and the economist and members of WahV Laura Onofri has discussed regarding the problems of cruise tourism for the documentary “Kreuzfahrt auf Kurswechsel” on Arte.Tv.
Forbes 09.01.2021 A Cultural Betrayal By Venice’s Mayor Leaves Residents Furious
The Forbes spoke to We are here Venice about the controversial decision made by the Venice’s mayor Luigi Brugnaro to keep the city's civic museums shuttered until April 1."Many of these museums have spaces that could and should be made…
Serbian newspaper Telegraf 03.01.2021
We are here Venice gave an interview to Serbian newspaper Telegraf, as part of an investigation regarding how Venice is coping with the pandemic. “The pandemic had many visible, and less visible, effects on the city - it especially put…
CBS News 11.12.2020: New artificial dam aims to save Venice from climate change-induced flooding
We are here Venice provided comment to CBS News for their feature on the MOSE flood barrier. In it, we underline how the effects of the climate crisis extend beyond Venice, as well as the need for radical choices to…
The Times and The Telegraph 10.12.2020: Venice stricken by floods in great barrier grief
The two main surviving UK broadsheets, The Times and The Telegraph, reached out to We are here Venice for comment on 9 December 2020 after the various and different authorities with responsibility for protecting the city and its inhabitants between them failed to activate…
PRIOR 25.11.2020: Presents of Mind (and Heart)
Ethical travel network PRIOR has endorsed We are here Venice as part of a recent campaign for travellers to make positive contributions to the places that they visit. WahV is highlighted as an organisation that travellers should donate to because…
Acqua Alta: One Year On
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…
Die Wochenzeitung 05.11.2020: Venice and the Biennale
We are here Venice gave an interview to Swiss newspaper Die Wochenzeitung, as part of an investigation into the role of the Biennale in Venice. 'We do not imagine that we have the answers to everything - but we want…
CNN 27.10.2020: These destinations were overwhelmed by tourists. Here’s how they’re doing now
La CNN fornisce un’inchiesta completa a proposito della situazione del turismo in luoghi iconici, da Machu Picchu a Dubrovnik, e fino a Venezia, "forse la destinazione più comunemente associata all'eccesso di turismo". In ognuno degli altri luoghi, i funzionari sono…
The World 22.10.2020: Is Overtourism Over?
The World spoke to We are here Venice about the city's changing relationship with tourism following the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy in spring 2020. The article compares Venice's situation with other European cities known for attracting overwhelming numbers of tourists,…
Aroop – Issue on Failure
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…
May Venice 19.10.2020: Living the Laguna Viva
Jane da Mosto was interviewed by May Venice alongside Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda, Creative Director of glass company Laguna B in our LagunaViva installation at the VAC Foundation in Venice. We are working together to demonstrate the potential of the Venetian lagoon as a carbon sink. Photo by Selina Zampedri.
ASviS Sustainable Development Festival 2020
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…
The Telegraph 25.09.2020: How Venice is faring in its worst year since the plague hit
We are here Venice gave comment to The Telegraph, who recently published an article on Venice's recovery following Covid-19 travel restrictions. It saddens us that Venice is more often in the news because of its problems like overtourism. The city…
Global Cruise Activist Network
During lockdown, WahV co-founder Jane da Mosto joined the steering group of what is a fast growing network of community activists scrutinising and campaigning about the unsustainable environmental, economic and humanitarian aspects of cruise ship activities. As a result of…
We are here Venice with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: teaming up for the 2020 ASviS Festival
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…
MEPs vote to include shipping emissions within European Emissions Trading Scheme
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…
CGTN: A city for locals or for tourists?
Beijing news outlet CGTN spoke to We are here Venice about the effect of Covid-19 measures on Venice's economy, and how the city might diversify its activities in the future to become more resilient. Even with months of lockdown and…
The Telegraph 12.09.2020: How a new art exhibition in Venice is shining a light on the planet’s battle against rising oceans
We are here Venice jointly hosted a visit in the lagoon for group of journalists invited to Venice for the re-opening of Ocean Space. In an article by the Telegraph considerations extend to the environmental challenges of Venice and, if addressed correctly,…
BACK SOON (but better) featured in the “Laguna durante” exhibition
The participative re-visioning of WahV’s poster campaign conceived and curated by Eleonora Sovrani is featured in the solo show of Andrew Huston at Beatrice Buratti Anderson gallery in Venice. Huston produced 2 of the 31 posters made by 27 residents of…
BACK SOON (but better)
“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…
Wish Magazine 04.09.2020: Venice Regained
We are here Venice contributed to an in-depth feature on Venice in Australian magazine Wish, who reached out to us to learn about the city's complex and delicate lagoon system. What’s increasingly clear is that the lagoon is the protagonist of…
Geo France 03.09.2020: Venice Rediscovered
We are here Venice was contacted by Geo France to contribute to a detailed exploration of the city's potential rebirth following Covid-19 restrictions. In the middle of the lagoon, on the island of Sant’Erasmo, the Frenchman Michel Thoulouze is savouring…
The Christian Science Monitor 05.08.2020: COVID-19 empties tourist traps in Europe: Crisis or opportunity?
WahV's report Whose City Is It Anyway?, written by Carolyn Smith and Jane da Mosto, was featured in the US publication The Christian Science Monitor. Efforts are underway to encourage Venetians to stay in Venice, rather than flee to cheaper…
Il Corriere del Veneto 21.07.2020: Rethinking the city after Acqua Alta and Covid
Image: Eleonora Sovrani. Il Corriere del Veneto - a local newspaper for the Veneto region of Italy - has reported on WahV's latest published report, Whose City Is It Anyway? Acqua alta on the 12th of November and Covid-19. There…
CNET 20.07.2020: Venice has been fighting floods for centuries. It’s losing
We are here Venice contributed to CNET's recent feature on the MOSE mobile flood barrier in Venice.
Whose City Is It Anyway?
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…
The Economist 12.07.2020: Venice Tests Its Flood Defences
On 10 July 2020, Venice's mobile flood barrier - known as the MOSE - was tested for the first time. We are here Venice's Jane da Mosto provided The Economist with insight into the project's troubled past. The causes of…
The New York Times 02.07.2020: Venice Tourism May Never Be the Same. It Could Be Better
The New York Times got in touch with We are here Venice to discuss how tourism in Venice might change for the better after the Covid-19 lockdown.
Belgian, Danish, Swedish, and Polish media get in touch for post Covid-19 insight
Image by Annie Drew. Danish national newspaper Information, along with Belgian De Standaard, Swedish Dagens Nyheter and Polish Rzeczpospolita got in touch with We are here Venice to explore the city's changed outlook after Covid-19 brought drastic changes to the…
CNN 19.06.2020: For some Venice residents, reopening after lockdown is bittersweet
We are here Venice's Jane da Mosto spoke to CNN about the return of tourism to Venice post-lockdown.
Deutsche Welle 16.06.2020: What will be the future of tourism in Venice?
Image by Annie Drew. Very few people still want — or are able — to live in the city itself. Many landlords find it far more lucrative to rent their properties to tourists than to a family with an ordinary…
RAI, Il Messaggero 08.06.2020: We must protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030
Image by Annie Drew. Our campaign to restructure Venice's relationship with cruise tourism has been featured in Italian national television network RAI, national newspaper Il Messaggero and local newspaper La Nuova Venezia. For World Ocean Day 2020, We are here…
Venice Exploratorium
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…
The Guardian 03.06.2020: ‘It’s an exciting beginning’: Venice opens to tourists
Image by Annie Drew. As the world looks to Venice to see how the city will cope with the return (or lack thereof) of tourism, The Guardian featured We are here Venice in an article detailing the re-opening of the…
The Art Newspaper 29.05.2020: The Green debate: How can the international art market recover sustainably?
Image by Eleonora Sovrani. WahV contributed to an article in The Art Newspaper, exploring how the art world can get back to business sustainably after the Covid-19 lockdown. Europe needs to reduce its emissions by 15% per year to equitably…
Back soon (but better) – Poster Initiative to Reimagine Venice’s Future
Drawing on our anti-cruise ship poster campaigns, which have been photographed and shared by hundreds of people since they began three years ago, Back soon (but better) sees WahV hand over the recognisable posters to residents across Venice for them…
BBC Radio Scotland 20.05.2020
We are here Venice's Jane da Mosto spoke to BBC Radio Scotland about the impact of Covid-19 on Venice's tourist-based economy. International scrutiny on Venice has intensified as the world wonders how a city that was so dependent on tourism…
CityLab 20.05.2020: When the Cruise Ships Stop Coming
Image by Anna Zemella. The cruise industry has featured frequently in headlines due to its mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic. As restrictions are eased, CityLab explores the unsustainability of the cruise sector and the problems it causes in port cities,…