Innovation, urban resilience and ecological transition are the themes in the center of the event “Future Earth”. Held on Friday 6 June as part of the Venice Climate WeekThe chosen frame is the big hall ofIUAV University of VeniceThe only Italian university that was fully focused on education and research in the context of the project disciplines
The initiative is intended to offer concrete tools and visions for theClimate Emergency Due to sustainable urban models, with a careful view of the situation in Venice and the example that can represent for other urban contexts.
Venice, between vulnerability and opportunities. Future earth as an opportunity to compare.
The Lagoon City, a worldwide symbol of beauty and vulnerability, is central to a crucial challenge: that of surviving the effects of climate change. On June 6, in combination with the World environmentL ‘IUAV University He has promoted a comparison about the future of cities, starting with the need to reconsider city planning in an environmental and participatory key.
The aim is to prevent phenomena such as uncontrolled cementation, flooding and pollution and at the same time promoting more inclusive communities that are able to adapt to current changes.
Circular cities and protection of biodiversity
The university has been organizing the Planning Laboratory for Climate ChangeCenter of Excellence for Urban Design resistant to climate change. The event “Future Earth”edited by Francesco MuscoIUAV Professor and President of the Corila Consortium (dedicated to research into the lagoon system) is entirely devoted to the theme of “Circular cities”.
This approach integrates Ecological architectureSustainable mobility, efficient management of waste, urban green and protection of biodiversity, with the aim of optimizing the use of natural resources and reducing the ecological print of urban contexts.
A new vision: post-careability
“We live in a context of an eternal risk and this requires a planning based on a broad and especially anticipatory vision”, underlines Benno AlbrechtRector of IUAV University. “The approval of circular models in the cities is a fundamental step in the direction of a future in which economic development and environmental protection can co-exist. To do this, it is necessary to absorb a new mental horizon that we define as post-survival, which makes all those changes (geographical and economic) difficult to predict, the design and design and to point out to be in a way of sinning and to point out to this way set.
Scientific contributions and interdisciplinary visions
To be officially opened the day Luca MercalliClimatologist and scientific popularist of international fame. University researchers IUAVIn collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)proposed a detailed analysis of urban adaptation strategies.
Special attention is paid to the urban climatic mapping, presented by Paola MercoglianoAt the head of the CMCC division dedicated to regional climatic models and geo-hydrological effects.
There was no lack of study on the relationship between ecology, food safety and marginal areas. The Future Food Institute will intervene with the contribution “Future Lands”He investigates how regeneration and nutrition can integrate into the construction of sustainable future on a global scale.
Beyond the cities: the challenge of the maritime space
The IUAV University stands out in the Academic Panorama for the complete dedication to the design disciplines. That is architecture, planning and city planning, design, art, fashion, theater and performative art.
This approach is reflected in projects of urban regeneration such as those of the Venetian historic center, which are today located as Open -Air laboratories for the “Post-sustainability”. Exactly from this vision the Venice Water LabInternational platform with research agencies, universities and institutions to develop solutions with regard to water management, the protection of sea and environmentalism.
With a view to advanced and interdisciplinary training, the IUAV has also enriched the training offer with training in English, aimed at environmental and climatic challenges. These paths form new professional profiles, able to tackle the complexity of the ecological transition in urban and marine contexts.
The use of the university has also been released in the active participation in the preparation of Maritime space management plansApproved by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in the autumn of 2024 and are currently being implemented.
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