The future of Venice

in an international symposium

4-5 November, 2016

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

Cenacolo Palladiano

Fifty years after the 1966 Venice flood, Fondazione Giorgio Cini is holding an international conference on the city’s future



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On 4 and 5 November 2016, exactly 50 years since the flood of 1966 that so dramatically highlighted to the whole world Venice's vulnerability, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini is staging an international conference on the future of the lagoon city and the sustainable management of its heritage. Entitled Sustainability of local commons with a global value: Venice and its lagoon, the conference (in English) will be held by a group of international experts on themes related to governance. 

Venice and its lagoon are an emblematic case of local commons but with a special feature: both have been attributed a global value, making them a universal good, that is, a rich historical legacy to be shared by everyone and a heritage of humanity. The thinking underlying the symposium has been inspired by the definition of local commons provided by Nobel prize-winner Elinor Ostrom: i.e. goods that are not the exclusive prerogative of some to the detriment of others. Such goods, however, are not free and unlimited, because use by one person inevitably reduces their availability for use by somebody else.

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