Objectives

The Outdoor pilot action focuses on the element of water to highlight the cultural and environmental dimensions of river and lake landscapes, as well as water management infrastructures (e.g., dams, flood control basins). The goal is to create new collective awareness about the narrative and identity potential of these specific natural resources, understood not only as ecological assets but also as living fabrics of history, culture, and memory.

Workshops

Laboratory 1

The laboratory explores, with an ethnographic approach, a form of collective and spontaneous reappropriation of the territory through the lens of the relationship with water.

• Location: Carmignano di Brenta
• Dates: From late May to September
• Artist: Alessia Zampieri

The workshop investigates new ways of relating to natural spaces—riverbanks, lakes, and peri-urban water edges—by exploring the spontaneous practices with which communities experience them daily. The action aims to interpret these dynamics by involving a group of teenagers and young adults who frequent the banks of the Brenta River and the shores of Lake Camazzole during the summer.

The laboratory thus becomes a tool for mediating between spontaneity and critical observation, to reveal the true potential of environments that are often marginal but rich in meaning.

Filmmaker Alessia Zampieri, inspired by an anthropological approach, will focus her research on the relationship between humans and water/humans and rivers. She will create an ethnographic short film using only an iPhone for filming, so as not to interfere with the spontaneity of the actions, in a kind of exchange with the participants.

A first narrative and visual presentation of the work is scheduled for July 8 during the “La Giusta Distanza” Festival.

Laboratory 2

The laboratory aims to enhance riverbanks and river landscapes as “permanent cultural infrastructures” through the act of walking.

“Lab Village – Tourism, Culture, and Creative Industries” collaborates with the “La Giusta Distanza” Festival (July 4–8, 2025), curated by Teatro del Pane of Treviso.

• Location: The territories along the route of the “La Giusta Distanza” Festival (Cavaso del Tomba, Segusino, Valdobbiadene, Miane, Follina, Cison di Valmarino, Revine Lago)
• Dates: July 4–8 and from the second half of July to September
• Artists: Michele Bandini and Mirko Artuso

The workshop aims to train a group of experts in tools and directorial strategies to interpret experiences in nature. In a collaborative environment, participants will be encouraged to independently develop theatrical and artistic projects based on an organic relationship between landscape and culture.

Co-designed Actions by Lab Village – Tourism, Culture, and Creative Industries:

“Quaderni Selvatici” Nature Directing Workshop by Michele Bandini

• July 4–7, 2–5 PM; Tuesday, July 8, 10 AM–1 PM and 3–6 PM
• An itinerant writing and theater workshop exploring the narrative power of the chorus, immersing participants in the four natural elements, drawing inspiration from the landscapes:
  • Water: rivers and springs, symbols of movement and fluidity
  • Air: wind and breeze, transforming into breath and voice
  • Earth: rocks, mountains, and woods, roots and belonging
  • Fire: warmth, hospitality, and shared stories
• Each day, participants will create texts, actions, and stories, culminating in a collective performance on the fifth day, presented to the public at the “La Giusta Distanza” Festival.

Itinerant Residency for the Creation of Two Artistic Short Films

• “Lab Village – Tourism, Culture, and Creative Industries” co-produces with “Lago Film Festival” and the “La Giusta Distanza” Festival the project “Ottantaquattromilapassi (Walking Filming),” an itinerant residency allowing two international videomakers (selected via open call) to experience the journey and document it.
• The premiere screening of the produced short films will take place at the 21st Lago Film Fest (July 18–26, 2025 – Revine Lago), an independent film festival.

“Turisti (non) per caso” (July 6, 3 PM, Malga Barbaria in Valdobbiadene)

• Professor Maurizio Busacca, Professor of Economic Sociology and Project Manager of “Lab Village, Tourism, Culture, and Creative Industries,” will converse with journalist Giada Zandonà.
• Topics: How is the relationship between tourism and territory changing? What are the possible synergies between cultural productions, businesses, and local communities?
• “Lab Village – Tourism, Culture, and Creative Industries” is a widespread laboratory for sustainable innovation in tourism, leveraging cultural and creative languages and practices to create new narratives for the territories of Northeast Italy.

“River Beaches” (July 8, evening, Pian delle Femene, Revine Lago)

• First presentation of materials for the short film in progress as part of the laboratory action in Carmignano di Brenta, curated by filmmaker Alessia Zampieri.

Laboratory 3

An educational path that weaves together science, art, and pedagogy to explore contemporary water infrastructures, reinterpreting them as places of culture, experimentation, and environmental awareness.

• Location: Bassa Veronese, Cerea flood control basins
• Dates: From the second half of July
• Artist: Piero Ramella
• Sociologist: Giorgio Osti

The experience unfolds as a creative educational tour, transforming hydraulic structures into narrative objects capable of telling the story of climate challenges and the complexity of water resource management. The laboratory will include field trips to share technical and scientific content, involving a group of teenagers who, through a series of workshop meetings, will reinterpret their experiences using creative and artistic languages. Together, they will co-design a new science- and culture-based educational tourism experience, especially for their peers.

The activity, aimed particularly at a young audience, seeks to stimulate critical and imaginative reflection on water use, highlighting the connection between territory, sustainability, and tourism innovation. Objectives: to rethink the cultural and symbolic value of hydraulic works, and to create a model of educational tourism for young people and schools that promotes scientific knowledge and collective action for water conservation.