Centro Internazionale Città d' Acqua of Venice closes down



After beyond 24 years the activity . The association has explained that, come to lack some the fundamental conditions for its existence, the board of directors has decided to put in liquidation Centro Internazionale Città d' Acqua "concluding a long experience, begun to Venice in 1989 and supported so from the constant support of its associates and in particular of the promoters (Common of Venice, New Venice Consortium, ACTV, Region of Veneto in order to only cite the main ones)". In these years of job the association has deepened topics legacies to the ambivalent relation between the city and the water and the city and the port, collecting information and redistributing them under various forms.

The association has remembered that in the course of its activity "it has constructed nets, in the most various international contexts, between various cities and organizations, meeting attention and consideration" and "has carried out a role of reference for students and students of these matters, gathering together the expert maximums in the field of the waterfront regeneration to international level and making them to converse in a logic of I confront and analysis to interdisciplinare. Besides the participation to conventions, seminaries and projects of international scale - the association has still remembered - City of Water has organized exposures and events, is in Italy that abroad, on the topic of the essential relation between water and city and on the outcomes of this delicate important relationship how much and problematic one, producing numerous banns, some of which have entered to take part of international the scientific literature, and creating to new subjects, that they will continue the undertaken job".

"He is favorable therefore - it has emphasized Centro Internazionale Città d' Acqua - than this experience, even if not more assets in the quotidianità, remainders in the memory as a fecund place, of words and ideas, that it has contributed, also minimally, to a greater understanding of contemporary city dynamics and the extraordinary and indispensable attraction between the human being, its fundamental creation, the city, and the water".

Centro Internazionale Città d' Acqua has announced that the produced and accumulated librario patrimony in these years from the association is transferred to the Venetian libraries of the university - University Iuav and Università House Foscari - and will be catalogued as bottom of "Centro Internazionale Città d' Acqua", so that can, even if only virtually, to recompose of its entirety anytime.