City, climate, future

The Venice Climate Week was created with a clear and ambitious goal: to make Venice an international laboratory of thought, dialogue, and action on the climate crisis. Promoted by CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change) and curated by journalist Riccardo Luna in collaboration with the Future Food Institute, the week positions itself as a meeting point between science, institutions, culture, and citizens to address climate change in a systemic, intergenerational, and creative way. Venice is the perfect symbolic setting for this mission — a fragile city now on the front line of rising sea levels, but also a global cultural treasure, a living laboratory where the past can engage in dialogue with the future.

Venice Climate Week begins with the awareness that climate change is no longer just a scientific issue, but also a social, economic, and cultural one — it must be tackled through new approaches capable of connecting knowledge and action. Over six days, the city hosts public talks, lectures, hackathons, exhibitions, performances, and dialogues between experts and citizens. The central theme is water — not only as an emergency, but as a fundamental element of our relationship with the planet. The choice of venues is equally meaningful: from the Procuratie Vecchie to Ocean Space, from the Corderie dell’Arsenale to Palazzo Diedo, each location becomes an opportunity for reflection and for building new alliances.

The goal is to raise awareness and inspire change — to bring forth ideas, visions, and solutions for ecological transition, with a perspective that goes beyond the rhetoric of alarm, focusing instead on shared responsibility, innovation, and beauty. It is an invitation to imagine the future together, starting from one of the most delicate — and resilient — cities in the world.

Featured image: Courtesy Venice Climate Week