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.
