On Sunday, June 9, 2024, in the “Sala dello scrutinio” of the Doge’s Palace, at 10:30 a.m., it has been hold the solemn gathering to close the 186th academic year of the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts (IVSLA).
During the event, the winners of the contest “Futuristic Venice, science and science fiction to rethink the oldest city of the future” organized by the IVSLA and the Venice Capital of Sustainability Foundation / Venice Sustainability Foundation (VSF) were awarded.
On the occasion of the Biennale of Sustainability 2023 – The Mose Era, the two institutions had organized the exhibition “Venice and Science, Two Centuries of Sustainability,” which presented the contribution made by science to the growth that Venice experienced between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
At the same time, IVSLA and VSF had initiated a contest of ideas dedicated to secondary schools. Drawing on the experience of the exhibition, students had been invited to imagine the Venice they will live as adults, hypothesizing solutions (in the form of texts, images, projects, models) to the city’s problems-which they hear about today or which they themselves perceive as real-in a sustainable perspective.
The two winning classes (2 B a.s. 2023/24 dell’Istituto Comprensivo Caio Giulio Cesare di Mestre; 2 E a.s. 2023/24 della Scuola secondaria di primo grado G. Bellini – Istituto Comprensivo Spallanzani di Mestre) has been rewarded with an educational visit to the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.
The participants’ works are on display until June 30 on the ground floor of IVSLA (Campo Santo Stefano, 2945-2946 S.Marco, 30124 Venice).
