01.12.2023 Climate Change Competition Award Ceremony - 11th Edition 2023

Interventions by: 

• BIANCA NARDON - Shylock C.U.T. of Venice. 
• FRANCESCA VIANELLO - Europe Direct of the Municipality of Venice. 
• WARREN CAIRNS - Ca’ Foscari University and CNR ISP. 
• MASSIMO PRONIO - Head of Communication of the European Commission Representation in Italy
• LUCA MERCALLI - SMI Italian Meteorological Society, A Sacher for my conference n. 3000

From 6:00, in addition, there has been a reading for the new maternity on the planet which changes with researches, professionals and activists of Venice involved in the climate crisis and in the choice or not choice of maternity, especially in relation to the climate effects, to the rise of sea levels and to water resources. 

Interventions by: 

• The intergenerational relation, between climate emergence and action. 
• The feminine realization on the climate crisis scenary. New approaches and questions about the choice of maternity. 
• New collective or individual lifestyles: social and environmental adaptation forms.  
• Northern Italy of contrasts, from economic primacy to climate hot spot in the Po Valley.
• The destiny of Venice, divided between laboratory city or uncontrolled drift. 
• Europe of people, of environment, of solidal solutions. 

 

The initiative aimed to stimulate the ideation and the production of communicative and artistic instruments on the topic of climate change, by giving value to a constructive or purposeful approach on the same stream of the deepening of basic knowledge of the last international relations about the topic. The contest underlined the urgence of adaptation actions and mitigation of the effects of climate change, dictated by the scientific community and by the United Nations along with the World Conference of Paris in 2015, and through the IPCC with the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C - SR15 of 2018 and by the AR6 Report of 2022, besides the evidence of the worsening of natural phenomena detected at an international level. 

List of selected works: 

1) “SOS Beniamina” Adam Sébire
2) “Solastalgia” Adam Sébire
3) “CeNere Memorie” Francesco Scarel
4) “Poetica del clima - Abecedario per un clima che cambia” Viola Polesello
5)“La Conferenza degli animali e il Grande Algoritmo” Sophia Los - testo inedito
6)“VTW Venice Tap Water” Marco Capovilla e team 
7) “Il piano alimentare del consigliere Cambiarotta” Cultura in tour

8)“The Salvation” Cristiana Vettor - opera digitale inedita 

PROJECT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION - Indicated by other people 

Seven projects of international communication have been evaluated by the judges, indicated in the contest. The three which received the highest scores are the followings: 

DIES IRAE DI MOZART PER XR NEDERLAND 

SHOW YOUR STRIPES di Ed Hawkins www.showyourstripes.info

CLIMATE CHANGE THEATRE ACTION - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyYtfasRjio

Giuria 2023: Warren Cairns, Alessandra Mazzai, Maria Rita Gallozzi, Sara Rattaro, Silvia Scardapane, Maria Grazia Serra, Erica Villa, Paolo Virtuani

Visite the website of the Ateneo Veneto related to the award ceremony 

Visite the website of the University Theatre Centre of Venice