Venice and lagoon sustainability

VENICE AND LAGOON SUSTAINABILITY

We tell of the Venetian experience aboard a boat that represents the desire to reconcile tourism with respect for the marine and terrestrial ecosystem. A particular boat, with a flat keel, to avoid the wave motion and with the ambition to enrich the experience of tourists by immersing them in the rhythms of life of the city: it is a visual, olfactory and sound journey in which nature becomes the protagonist.

In the video that accompanies this session, we cross the southern lagoon, and moving away from the industrial center of Marghera, aboard a bragozzo1, we move towards the northern lagoon, between the islands of Burano and S.Erasmo in the white light of the afternoon. Our journey is filled with the sounds of the landscape, without a narrative voice.

The increase in “per capita speed”, consumerism, has had the effect of depersonalizing the territory: living in one place or another is indifferent. In Venice, on the other hand, we are trying to rebuild a sustainable cultural, artistic, social and environmental landscape that will guarantee a future for the new generations.

Our boat trip takes us to learn about sustainable agriculture in the lagoon, visiting a farm on the island of S.Erasmo. The islands of Venice tell of organic farms, ecological boats, bike rides: the environment positively affects the quality of work and economy by producing local value scales and sustainable production. Even tourism can be sustainable if the environment is the new indicator for landscape tourism.

1 - Small sailing ship with a wooden hull, round and squat, usually with two masts and sails painted in bright colors, widely used in the northern Adriatic, for fishing or transport. PLANET, the space of the city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdfveIQD_7k

PLANET, the space of the city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdfveIQD_7k