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SUMMARY:VENICE LESSONS - book launch & exhibition
DTSTART:20161115T123000
DTEND:20161203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T041137Z
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CATEGORIES:Celebrations
DESCRIPTION:Harry Gugger (LABA)\, Patrick Schneebeli (Park Books)\nVENICE 
 LESSONS \nBook lauch\, Nov 15\, 12.30\nExhibition\, Nov 15 - Dec 3\nVENICE
  LESSONS presents the studio’s projects for the future of Venice and de
 scribes LABA's methodology in teaching and research. This special edition 
 includes Miroslav Sasek's marvelous children's book This is Venice which
  was originally published in 1961. Even today\, Sasek’s​ description
  of the character of Venice’s centro storico is still elegant and pert
 inent and gave us the opportunity to convey our contemporary reading of Ve
 nice\, which today of course is much broader and encompasses the whole urb
 an system that stretches from the terraferma across the lagoon and out to 
 the sea. The exhibition presents a collection of pages from Sasek’s ch
 ildren’s book This is Venice and references to our research findings a
 nd design projects. It allows a glimpse of another Venice\, decontextuali
 zed and replicated around the world — an illustration of the global indu
 stry of popular culture producing simulated „Venices“. ​ We would b
 e happy to welcome you at this event and hope for engaging discussions.\nT
 he LABA team   "Suspended in the struggle between sea and soil\, Venice 
 is an ambiguous place prone to mystification. For centuries\, vedutisti le
 ft a vivid visual record of the city that was by turns a reflection of rea
 l and imagined space. As a result\, tourist-oriented Venice has seen the b
 irth and growth of an industry of nostalgia\, in which preservation effort
 s to protect its historic brand sometimes displace its local livelihood. I
 n addition\, Venice now battles rising water levels that are having a fund
 amental impact on local communities and living conditions."​
LOCATION:Archizoom\, Project room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=17&recenter_y=
 5863907.91946&recenter_x=730802.46219&layerNodes=fonds\,batiments\,labels\
 ,information\,parkings_publics\,arrets_metro\,transports_publics&q=archizo
 om
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