A Guide to Anthropocene Venice

The brand new Venetian publisher wetlands introduces an innovative guidebook Venice and the Anthropocene, which illustrates the city both to the visitor and the armchair traveller through the lens of our current environmental predicament. 

After a short introduction on the importance of wetlands in the current discussions around the Anthropocene, the authors will explore a few sites as they appear in Canaletto and in their current form, and will show how Venice is a fundamental vantage point to understand the climate crisis, its challenges, and what we can do about it. 

About the lecture series

This event is part of a series of talks given by researchers, scholars and experts to accompany Canaletto's Venice Revisited at the National Maritime Museum. 

The talks will illuminate Venice's dynamic history and explore what Venetian music, literature, art, architecture and ecology can tell us about the challenges that the city faces from rising sea levels, population decline and mass tourism.

The series is generously supported by the Italian Cultural Institute. All lectures will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the National Maritime Museum or at the Italian Cultural Institute at 39 Belgrave Square in London.

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