Arts in Venice Summer School ‘The Shape of Water’ is a unique inter-university project that offers students a multidisciplinary
program in the historic city of Venice and in its surrounding lagoon. The Summer School, conceived within Study in Venice
- a network made up of the four higher education institutions of Venice (Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Benedetto Marcello Music
Conservatory, Iuav University and Ca' Foscari University) - aims to welcome students from the Humanities who want to better
understand a unique and fragile city like Venice, and with an interest in Arts, meant in a broad sense, from Music to Contemporary
Art, from Architecture to Geo-Anthropological History. The topic of the 2024 edition of the Summer School will be water, the
key element to decipher the city built on the lagoon.
Programme
overview
Venice is a gauge whereby to measure the problems involved
when building a global future capable of combining liveability and beauty and the relevant solutions, which is why Study in
Venice has chosen to offer a Summer School which focuses on the lagoon city.
As
a candidate for World Capital of Sustainability, Venice boasts a unique artistic, musical and urban heritage and a major international
role as a center for the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art and culture.
Its dimension as a globally interconnected microcosm, the complexity of the lagoon ecosystem – which is threatened
by climate change –, the socio-economic problems linked to tourist flows and their impact on urban liveability, and above
all its 'liquid' nature as a city founded on and influenced by water, make the city of Venice a fascinating case study that
offers those who live there and study it the measure of the paradoxes and contemporary difficulties inherent in the search
for cultural, ecological and social models.
