The four programmes

Four programmes, one week each, same lagoon.

Four programmes, one week each, same lagoon. Teaching is identical across the three accommodation levels — see How you stay.

1 · Venice Summer School & University Field Courses 2027

MOSE, Climate Change Adaptation, Nature-based Solutions & Coastal Sustainability, circular design — learn in the living Venice Lagoon.

Cohort — Typically 10–20 students and accompanying faculty; larger groups and simultaneous small-boat fieldwork are quoted and checked individually.

Day 7 output — Tested intervention module and monitoring handover.


2 · Corporate — Leadership & Regeneration

For companies and leadership teams working on climate, risk and complex systems.

Cohort — 10–16.

Day 7 output — Transfer note to the organisation, with one decision practice to test.


3 · Water, Nature & Technology Professionals

For engineers, port and water authorities, environmental firms and heritage practitioners.

Cohort — 10–20.

Day 7 output — Monitoring protocol, baseline and named next observation.


4 · Community Campus — Twinning Water Communities

For municipalities, wetland managers, school networks and local associations.

Cohort — 12–20, mixed by design: technicians, administrators, teachers and citizens.

Day 7 output — Twinning agreement signed; baseline and protocol leave with the community.


The hydrographic rods

Eighteen have been made so far; eight are already installed and readable. This is the one place on this site where we show what has been done, not what is planned.

Under a brick bridge: an oyster-covered mudflat and seagrass, with the Marghera petrochemical plant on the horizon
One lagoon, four ways to read it.