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.
