"Waterlogged: Venice, the Future, and the World"
Apply for Venice Workshop until 4 April
21.03.2022
This coming summer semester, Dr. des. L. Sasha Gora is offering a place-based workshop in Venice. Please note that this course is exclusively for certificate students.
If you want to earn 6 ECTS and participate in her course, please read the details below:
Venice is sinking: This is old news that we’ve all heard before. But what other narratives exist about this lagoon city? How are locals reimagining Venice? If the city is “a canary in a coal mine” when it comes to climate change, how might it forecast alternative futures? This place-based seminar casts Venice and its relationship to the Venetian Lagoon as a case study for examining urban environments through the lens of wetness. It will take both a Venice-in- the-world and the world-in-Venice approach to challenge binaries such as wet and dry, land
and water, salt water and fresh. Furthermore, it will spotlight topics such as the balance between too much water and too little, tourism as a monoculture, and the environmental impacts of human hunger and thirst.
The seminar will begin with a meeting in Munich on Friday 6 May. We will travel to Venice Wednesday 25 May and return to Munich on Sunday 29 May. Students will meet researchers, chefs, activists, artists, and others working across the Venetian Lagoon. The final wrap-up meeting will then take place in Munich on Friday 8 July. Participants are expected to be present for all these dates. Also please note that proof of vaccination—the so-called green pass—is required to travel to Italy.
Because of limited spots, this course requires a one-page motivation letter. Please tell me: Why you, why Venice, and why this seminar? (The answer to question two need not be that you’ve been there before.) Please send your letter by 4 April 2022 to sasha.gora@rcc.lmu.de.