At the end of September the seventh edition of the Teach Me Festival will be held in Venice with a series of free workshops and conferences on Visual Communication and creativity. This year the festival plays host to Erik Kessels, co-founder of KesselsKramer, one of the best known and most influential communications agencies in the world. Teach Me, curated by Giorgio Camuffo, is a project from the Iuav University of Venice and the Fondazione Claudio Buziol and has been organised entirely by the students. Università Iuav of Venice – Faculty of Design and Arts Fondazione Claudio Buziol
EPFL is the research home of the beginning of the modern computer mouse, of the ambitious Blue Brain Project, and of innovative ideas towards sustainable development. Offering tuition at all levels from undergraduate to PhD, it is one of the world’s fastest growing campuses. It is currently ranked alongside Cambridge as the top university in Europe in the category of engineering, technology and computer sciences according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Situated on a single campus overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, with extraordinary views of the Alps, EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. These include 7,000 students as well as professors, over 4,000 researchers and other faculty members, plus administrative staff and a number of entrepreneurs running small start-up science and technology businesses located on the campus.
After the success of the previous editions Infart strikes back among the most important European Urban Art festivals. An invasion consisting of paintbrushes, spray cans, pictures, collages, stencils, sculptures and installations. During the opening day on September 3rd, together with the exhibition show taking place in the Castello degli Ezzelini, a video installation about the European and international Writing scene will be held through the use of rare archive images. This video installation is curated by Andrea Caputo, creator of All City Writers, a publishing project that recalls 30 years of this movement, starting from its origins in the Bronx of the 70’s NY until the explosion of the culture in Europe in the last two decades.
The independent and parallel sections: International Critics’ Week - Giornate degli Autori-Venice DaysThe screenings schedule includes 11 days, from Wednesday 1st to Saturday 11th September. - VENICE DAYS YEAR 7 31 august - 11 september. Independent, auteur and creative cinema has for seven years found a home in Venice and its flag at Venice Days, a free space promoted by the Italian filmmakers associations ANAC and 100 Autori. - Circuito Off 2010 August 31 – September 4.
Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create the world's largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.
new modeling studies using a lot of realistic hydrogeological and geomechanical information from the northern Adriatic basin indicate that pumping seawater into a 600–800 m deep brackish aquifer below the Venice Lagoon might help raise the city uniformly by 25–30 cm over 10 years (a). This could provide Venice with an important innovative defence from and a substantial mitigation to the so-called “acqua alta,” i.e., the increasingly frequent floods that plague the city.
L’idea di sollevare Venezia si collocherebbe in termini sinergici nei confronti del “sistema MOSE”. Innanzi tutto l’impianto di sollevamento ed il sollevamento stesso avrebbero impatto pressoché nullo sull’eco-sistema lagunare. Ciò premesso, un progetto di sollevamento della città avrebbe un costo enormemente inferiore a quello del MOSE (dell’ordine di pochi %) mentre consentirebbe di mantenere inalterata la funzionalità del MOSE all’interno e finanche oltre i 50 anni di vita previsti, anche in presenza di un innalzamento del mare (dovuto al global warming) che alcuni studiosi prevedono possa essere simile a quello considerato nel progetto.
The Festa del Redentore is a festival that is particularly popular with Venetians as it combines a religious theme with a spectacular celebration that attracts thousands of visitors. On Saturday night, the inimitable setting of St. Mark's Basin hosts a phantasmagorical firework display that lights up the spires, domes and bell towers of the city with a kaleidoscope of colours and reflections. At dusk, just as they have done for centuries, numerous small boats decked out with balloons, decorations and brightly coloured lanterns, begin to flock into St. Mark's Bay and the Giudecca Canal. The boats then moor alongside each other and all the participants enjoy a sumptuous dinner of traditional Venetian specialities while they wait for the firework display that begins at 11.30pm and lasts until well past midnight.
SPECIAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICE
On Saturday July 17th, in the night, Trenitalia will arrange the following special trains from Venice to the main towns in the Veneto: - From Venezia Santa Lucia to Mestre: departures at 01:01 - 01:10 - 01:20 - 01:50 - 02:05; - From Venezia Santa Lucia to Padova: departure at 02:10, stops in alla stations except Porto Marghera; - From Venezia Santa Lucia to Treviso: departure at 02:42, stops in Mestre, Mogliano Veneto, Preganziol; - From Venezia Santa Lucia to Vicenza: departure at 02:50, stops in alla stations except Porto Marghera. ACTV will adjust local means of transportation, both on water and in the mainland.
Take a walk into the industrial area of Marghera. Walk alone, at 2 pm, under a summer sun. Exit the station of Mestre, get into the chaos of cars, buses, trains (planes and ships farther). Then you arrive. Silence. Long and deserted streets. Sun, lot of sun. Ok, the Vegapark of course, but then you walk, you walk a lot. Behind. Around. Around the petrochemicals, the shipyards, the docks (the dock of the Nitrogen!), the the big ships, the skeletons of the sheds, the dead rails, the futuristic overpasses. If there is a place where the collision between past present and future is so harsh, that place is still Marghera. You get there to see signs of innovation, of future: Vegapark, technology, creativity (the coworking, for example). But when you're there you cannot escape the present, even less the past. Most of the bills with it are still open. Heavy. We need a sustainable future, for all.
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Fatti un giro per la zona industriale di Marghera. A piedi, da solo, alle due del pomeriggio, sotto il sole d'estate. Esci dalla stazione di Mestre, t'infili nel caos di macchine, autobus, treni (più in là, aerei e navi). E poi arrivi. Silenzio. Strade lunghe e deserte. Tanto sole. Sì, il Vegapark, ovvio, ma poi cammini, cammini ancora. Cammini tanto. Dietro. Intorno. Al petrolchimico, ai cantieri navali, alle banchine (la banchina dell'Azoto!), alle grandi navi ormeggiate, agli scheletri dei capannoni, ai binari morti, ai cavalcavia futuristici. Se c'è un posto dove la collisione tra passato presente e futuro è così dura, quel posto è ancora Marghera. E ci vieni per vedere segni di innovazione, di futuro: il Vegapark, la tecnologia, la creatività (il coworking, per esempio). Ma quando sei lì davvero non puoi fuggire al presente, meno che meno al passato. E molti conti sono ancora lì: Aperti. Pesanti. Serve un futuro sostenibile, per tutti.
YouTube Play is a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum to unearth and showcase the very best creative video from around the world. To have your work considered, simply post it on YouTube, and then submit it at youtube.com/play. A jury of experts will decide which works presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, 2010 with simultaneous presentations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice. The videos will be on view to the public from October 22 through 24 in New York and on the YouTube Play channel. Submissions close July 31, 2010.