Venice Urban Lab
Venice and its lagoon are a unique place in the world based on a lifestyle centered on man, harmony and balance, which in itself is an active testimony of the transition to the sustainable future.
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Venice is a compact city on a human scale, immersed in the natural water park of the lagoon, where living is combined with beauty, sustainability and harmony between nature and artifice. For this reason we believe that it should be considered a paradigmatic example of the sustainable city of the future but also because the morphological structure of the city highlights a double sequence of values:
Primary values:
proximity and density, human scale and dexterity, pedestrian and beauty
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Consequential values:
quality of time, inclusion, solidarity and humanity, sound of silence, health, absence of waste
Since "spaces give shape to people, people give shape to spaces", (the guiding principle of the Baukultur), this sequence of values interacts extraordinarily in the quality of daily life. In their multiple combinations and overlaps it is easy to recognize that these values
generate equality
create belonging
induce observation
promote attention
allow slowness
suggest kindness
produce sociability
encourage solidarity
stimulate the exchange of generations
promote health
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Preserving and exporting these values and the balance between natural and artificial is our mission for the city and the planet.