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.
