2026-06-12 | Caterina Pecchioli: Venice 2749 Social Cartography
On June 18, from 15:00 to 18:00, at Sale Docks, Dorsoduro 265, Venice, our fellow Caterina Pecchioli will have a round table discussion, Venice 2749 Social Cartography - The Underwater Scenario. The round table will be held in Italian and English.
With a focus on the future of Venice and its lagoon, this event establishes a parallel between Venice, Rotterdam, and Philadelphia—cities that symbolize both water-related vulnerability and sites of experimentation and resilience. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue spanning photography, architecture, science, and technology, it examines climate change, sea-level rise, urban transformations, and speculative futures.
The event is part of the international project 2749 Social Cartography: The Photo Archive of Decolonial Ecology by Caterina Pecchioli, which explores the intersections of climate change, collective memory, and colonial histories through the speculative image of the Earth in the year 2749. Alongside the presentation of the project and its digital archive - co-created with intercultural, Indigenous, and diasporic communities in Philadelphia and Rotterdam, and developed in collaboration with the Laboratorio di Geomatica CIRCE at Università Iuav di Venezia, the discussion will address future urban and climate scenarios for Venice and its lagoon through contributions from artists, researchers, and experts in geomatics, spatial planning, education and archival practices.
With: Caterina Balletti, scientific director of the CIRCE Geomatics Laboratory at Università Iuav di Venezia; Ludovico Centis, co-author of The Lake of Venice: A Scenario for Venice and Its Lagoon; Lisa Heinis, head of education at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam; Filippo Magni, expert in urban climate change and spatial planning; Caterina Pecchioli, visual artist; Alessandra Saviotti, researcher and curator of the project;
and Nicoletta Traversa, head of the RI-PRESE Archive in Venice. Moderated by Marco Baravalleand Caterina Pecchioli.
The Archive of Decolonial Ecology includes contributions from, among others: Razia Barsatie, Adam Cooper-Teran, Sarojini Lewis, and Michelle Piergoelam.
The research project is supported by Strategia Fotografia 2025, promoted by the Directorate-general for contemporary creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Co-funded by the 4th Century Center Research and Design Fellowship (AFS) in Philadelphia. Cultural partners: Abington Friends School (AFS), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Università Iuav di Venezia, Sale Docks, and the Thami Mnyele Foundation.
More information here