Monday
On Monday, a visit to Palazzo Bembo will introduce the European Cultural Centre that hosts the exhibition Time Space Existence 2025, which is on display in the framework of the Venice Architecture Biennial 2025: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. The introduction by architect Hadi El Hage will establish the first links between science and art, which will be a thread across the whole week.
Thursday
On Thursday, we will walk to the Giardini del Redentore, a historical garden maintained and managed by the Venice Gardens Foundation, under the direction of its president Adele Rerebaudengo. This extraordinary place, blending nature and culture, has just reopened to both visitors and residents. Professor Donatella Calabi will tell us of this restoration project and of other initiatives that testify to the vitality of a city despite overtourism, which she has reviewed in her book Venezia è viva. Venice is alive. Venise est vivante.
Friday
On Friday, Sala del Portego of Palazzo Franchetti, the seat of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA), will host the public lecture on Venice and the Lagoon, exploring the solutions to protect and maintain the unique cultural and environmental heritage face to the unprecedented challenges posed by overtourism and sea level rise. The theme will be introduced by Professor Andrea Rinaldo, president of IVSLA, with Considerations on Venice in a Changing World. Professor Francesco Musco, president of the research consortium CORILA, will present Venice and the Regulated Lagoon. Being a public event, lectures will be in Italian with English slides and translation of salient points.
Saturday
On Saturday, the Alma Dal Co Foundation and the Benedetto Marcello Venice Conservatory, host in Sala Concerti a public Conversation on Science and Music, with the participation of philosopher Massimo Cacciari, musicologist Sandro Cappelletto, neuroscientist Daniela Perani, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi and the doctoral students of the Venice Conservatory. The students will perform their own original music composed for the occasion. This extraordinary encounter between eminent figures of science, culture and religion and young researchers offers a unique opportunity to bridge Alma Dal Co’s two major passions. This public event will be open to the citizens of Venice and held in Italian but music speaks to everybody.