Smartdest Horizon2020 Innovation Camp DAY1 - Workshop (Part 1)
[Music] thank you again [Music] now I switched to English and I welcome you thank you for coming this morning before we start we're going to have an introduction by the accessorial patrimono of the city of Venice the owners of this space and also former accessories for tourism of the city of Venice so Paola Mar is going to welcome us on behalf of the administration support [Applause] thank you very much I try to read something in English it's not my languages but I I try dear participant good morning everyone and welcome to this program hi happy and proud to represent the local administration at these two days mark this Innovation camp in titred redesign the relationship between tourism and urban space a horizon 2020 project I look for Ferrar to hearing City Administration and representatives of Industry from 80 European city speak about sustainable Urban tourism Mobility housing the result emerging from this the events will be very interesting and useful to the Venice Administration as the project offers a comparative picture of the current situation in fact in fact our Administration is taking the issue from several different angles tourist accommodation facilities in the 2017 the municipal Administration has issued a ban on converting buildings in into tourist accommodation whether hotel or bmbs or making an extension to those already in existence application can only be passed by the Council on a case-by-case basis crowd floor management in ongoing sophisticated attempt to manage to this flow the city council as approved in the 2019 the new regulation for establishment and regulation of the access fee to discourage day three pass from coming on the most congested periods data acquisition in an effort to take over tourism Venice as setup in early 20 21 a state of the art control room with the data driving approach to managing overcrowding at tourist hotspot we now have aggregated data on how many people congregate in different parts of the city on which country they are from how fast they go where they stop and want what meters of Transportation there are using the church and convents of science cosmet Damiano on judeka Island where we are now is a site of urban regeneration owned by the city of Venice who restored in 27 with European fans the community grants the use of the former Church of science cosmet Damiano where we are now two serendipity benefit company and project partner whose main mission since 2018 is to repopulate Venice by raising startups and bringing high quality jobs in the town the Venice City the administration is most noted to host the smartest Innovation camp and I warmly wish you all the best for this event thank you very much thank you very much for that introduction Paola and thank you to the city for giving us this wonderful space that we get to use and for these next two days so let me remind you of the fact that we have a two-day program today is mostly a workshop and seminars and presentations to inspire the people who will participate in tomorrow's ideathon where we'll try together to find some solutions to the issues and challenges that emerge from the project and are going to be presented this morning so two days seminar is the first day and tomorrow idea ton so day one this is the schedule for today I'm speaking first because I'm the founder of serendipity the benefit corporation that Paula mentioned thank you for pretty much summing up what we do here it stands for serenissima development and preservation through technology and again to repeat what Apollo just said the mission is to contribute to repopulating the city of Venice by fostering the creation of jobs through the Innovation and the support of startups that are housed in this in this space eventually that those jobs will create residences our mission and our goal the place they were in uh obviously we call it H3 Factory obviously it was a church it's part of the convent I'm saying councilman Damien next door is a Cloister where the nuns used to live and this was their Church it's in maps I don't know why it's crooked like that it's in maps since uh 1528. and for a hundred years though it was converted after it was abandoned in the early 1800s it was converted into a factory during the Industrial Revolution and for a hundred years inside here they were making garments in the factory called Harian so actually when he walked here these floors would extend all the way into each one of the appses so you walked and you had a ceiling on your head when you walked in and for 100 years you could see some of the arches in the corner of the picture there and then it was abandoned in the 1980s so not that long ago and then the city as Paula said restored in the early 2000s and chopped off the floors reopened the church the frescoes were painted white and they were brought back out and so now we can use it as an incubator and create new businesses for the city of Venice quick note about what we do as Serendipity just for those of you who don't know us we do three main things I'll start with the culture component and I'd like to thank Emmanuela which barbario who is the director of the cultural side of things here we have concerts We There were there was a movie shot inside here we do all kinds of things mostly on weekends so I encourage you if you're from around that needs to come and see what we do in this realm thanks to Emmanuela Manuel who's also put together all the sounds while I'm at it I'm gonna thank Leo who's also gonna video record the entire proceedings for the next two days and then put together a nice video all of this is going to be on YouTube as soon as we're done with the filming the other thing that we do already mentioned is startups I want to just mention the main program that we do which is MIT design Venice there's a big poster on the back of you which is a collaboration between Serendipity and MIT design X the one from Boston the original program we started last year we have teachers and professors from MIT come and support and instruct our startups that we select every year so every year we select 10 startups and then the faculty from MIT come every couple weeks to support their growth and to launch them into the real world these are the startups we selected last year in the four themes that we have the reason why I'm saying a lot of this is because tomorrow we consider to be a recruiting event as well for an MIT design acts and we hope that some of the ideas that emerge tomorrow could possibly participate in the program this year as you can tell as part of our yearly program tomorrow is a day where we hope to recruit some people the submissions if you're interested are at the end of the month of July and then after the submissions come through we select 10 and then they go through the program in the fall but the third piece that we do is research I just want to mention briefly the one on the left which is the program that I started in 1988. I'm a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and I've been bringing students from the US to Venice since 1988. so 35 years of bringing students to Venice you'll see them
here there are some students here today so you see them roaming around if you're interested on Monday they will present the results of their research that are all projects about Venice but I'm not gonna tell you too much more about that because the main reason for being here today is the other stuff that we do as Serendipity we're participating grants and the most important one that we've been working on for the past three years is smart best I'm not going to talk about that because Paolo Russo will talk about that so I'll leave it up to him to give you the details and before we go and give the the microphone to Paolo I just want to thank the entire uh Serendipity staff which for putting this together all of you without you this wouldn't have happened so thank you of serendipity raise your hands and thank you for putting together a great so without further Ado I'm gonna pass the mic to Paulo Russo who is the principal investigator of the smart test project and he's been guiding us for three years through thick and thin as they say in the US through the covid emergency and everything else so Paulo okay thank you very much um thanks for coming thanks for being here it's nice to see these uh strange mix of research partners and students and also a lot of friends from Venice and Venetian activists people I haven't been seen for a long time also some of you so it's a it's really exciting and it's not casual that when we started to plan for this project we thought that Venice would be an ideal place to come back to at the end of our project as one of the case studies in our project but also as a perfect place to talk about the topics of our projects and the results that we that we get this is an international Europe funded Horizon 2020 classical I would say research project the European commission funds many different research activities this is research but as usual uh they ask you to produce a research that is likely to make a real social political impact so to produce results that inform different publics that transfer knowledge to those that can make use of this knowledge to create a better in this case living conditions for local communities this is a project that has been funded under a call on social exclusion and urban transitions so we tackled this topic coming in from the point of view of tourism-driven transformations in urban areas which is my own and most of our partners main area of scientific engagement so we did the uh put up I think are quite strong in ambition research proposal to study the so-called ills of Tourism for urban community something that some of us have been working on for 25 30 years my doctoral thesis in 19 2002 was already about the kind of stuff that we have been working on smartest we didn't use the word over tourism then but uh people like in the Academia like like Professor Paolo Costa in this area has been doing this kind of research and what happened in the last few years I would say a period of exceptional period after the big financial crisis in 2008 to 2012 and the next big crisis the coveted crisis is that uh over tourism the excess of Tourism and the problems it was causing a becoming a an issue not just for the few usual places like Venice but for a much wider and much longer number of places in the world to the point where it seems to have become a general Trend and we need probably new instruments to decipher all that so yeah we know there's a lot of tourists these tourists have certain positive and negative impacts and negative impacts sometimes are even Superior than the positive ones of four local communities uh and what do you make of that and the big question is and so what for local community so what foresee this so what for cities of the future uh can we imagine a world in which the most visited tourist populations become areas just for temporary mobilities and my friend here Giacomo Salerno has been working on this concept of the short-term City can we imagine cities that are only for tourists because that is the trend that is the trend that not just in Venice but in many of the historical City centers and even whole cities around Europe and in the rest of the world we are only dealing with European money so we study what happens in Europe at its borders Israel is one of the of the partner countries in our project thanks to Tel Aviva and Jerusalem universities were were Partners but this is actually happening everywhere is happening in the global South we don't have cases of the global South Europe but it would be nice in the future too talk about that we dressed up intellectually we create a very big like conceptual framework to be even Innovative in our research proposal and I'm I'm not going to go deeper into that but we are following the lead of sociologists like Jonah Ray who has invented this idea the mobility Paradigm we study society and we study places through the action the agency and the power of the things in movement people in movement capital in movement which is a temporary plugging into places but with a very strong power of transformation over that place this is the approach we brought in and we understand tourism in this way as something that is a flow made of people made of vehicles are made of capital made of ideas and of culture that sets its foot in one place transforms it and eventually sometimes disrupts it or creates a new reality but then we have to understand what is the role of the people who live in those places as a subjects objects of victims or protagonists or of those Transformations and so our project wants to produce an ample base of evidence data algorithms Analytics and also discourses that could feed the urban agenda of the future an urban agenda that is fully cognizant of the challenges produced by tourist mobilities transnational mobilities over place which has not been the case until very recently until very recently for instance at the level of European commission tourism is treated the mainly in sectorial terms of when we do research in tourism for the commission we do it to promote tourism to find ways to better Market tourism we are not looking at the edges of what is happening into place this is more properly researched on cities on Urban studies and or role that tourism and international Mobility has in all of in all of that so we our ambition at the beginning of the project there is always a very big gap between initial Ambitions and outcomes at the end but would be to provide instruments to create a more resilient cities and when we talk about resilient cities we especially think to resilient local communities these are invisible or visible actor that doesn't pick up as it should in statistics let me make an example mainstream ways of measuring the economic effects of Tourism we have a tourist growth on one side we have a population or income growth on the other and we create a simple correlation and we can say Okay tourism has produced an increase of the living condition of local communities what is the mistake the fallacy in this idea is the local community is not the same from moment zero to moment one yes at the moment one the local community might be wealthier but they are not the same people that you had at moment zero so what happened with them well mostly they have gone they have gone because they can't afford or they can't cope to live in a place which has become over touristed and Venice is a very good example of that but Barcelona which is our own ground of research is as well and we did that and this is like more anecdotical but uh you imagine the kind of [ __ ] we have to go through in our project we started the project in January 2020 do you remember that month uh and we had this uh very nice very big scientific proposal which was going to see on the ground the effects of over tourism measure the impacts on local communities observe a local communities coping with over tourism or gentrification of transnational redesign of livelihoods and then after two months the apocalypse arrives and it basically totally changes the object of our project so we have been like for two years we tried to change the way in which we should apply the methodology of our project that we we could do that to to some extent but for us kovid has been an unexpected Laboratory of studying analyzing the questions of dependence and vulnerability of tourist places requiring fresh approaches to how we study tourism and the objective of research in tourism in view of resilience some of you will remember our initial framework of research I'm not going to go through that but the whole idea is to study social exclusion as something that happens in between tourism as a driver of urban Transformations and what the policy does can do but not only policy even governance structures and the citizens initiatives can do to cope with those transformation and the result is places which are more or less inclusionary so our research approach went through basically free stages of research the first the simpler one the one that doesn't need to be on the ground that only looks at statistical data has been looking at European trends transversally uh what was happening in European urban areas in terms of the kind of flows they have been attracting and social trends observed in those same area and we came up as a let's say the main result of that first part of the project with a clusterization a classification of European regions in terms of how attractive they are and for which time type of mobilities and over which period of time whether it's a really fast growth or a more steady and continued growth in time and so we went to measure social indicators in these four types of regions to look for clues that there could be some kind of association between being a highly attractive region for tourists also subject to intense tourist pressure or a highly attractive regions for other types of migrations and the the social trends happening there's and we we found some evidence that over touristic regions in Europe those that are colored in red in this map are those that are able to benefit more of course in economic terms from tourism but also those who are more subject to social gaps to social injustice to social special inequalities picking up in those places and so that gave us the opportunity then to go down at case study level so we initially had 8K studies among which some are also represented by our partners here to reconstruct the context and the drivers of social inclusion or exclusion around tourism and transnational mobilities Urban regimes moments of change the role that infrastructure development had in all of that the social landscape of cities before and after tourismification we have been analyzing what we call the weak the problems so dissecting the causal relations between drivers and results with the data that we have been able to raise in our project we have been focusing on the consequences that they embodied the lived consequences of these trends for local communities especially those most vulnerable collectives in each of these cases for different reasons so every case study has tackled One problems or two problems they have worked with specific vulnerable communities and the last part of the project about which Erica is going to talk after me from Polytechnic of Turin has been a last phase of participatory engagement of local stakeholders in this case study cities to come up with seed Solutions or forms of mitigations that are actually co-designed verified tested with the data available um so what are the main lines of work in our project will be very brief about that two main transversal lines of research the first about a residential instability The Exodus which is not just a problem of Venice isn't anymore I recently saw a paper by our colleague felipochelata looking at 15 big European destinations in Europe and how they are all suffering from the population of their historical centers and even beyond that so mainly this is like the elephant in the room mainly under the pool of the rise of what we call platform Hospitality House houses there is a new housing crisis which is partly explained by by that Rising rent professionalization of the housing the promotion or Real Estate Value chain exposition of residents and there are other phenomena that also work in favor of the displacement of local population which per se is a form of social exclusion because we are removing people from their natural habitats we are scissoring social ties we are making Social Capital weaker and more rarified we are marginalizing those who cannot displace and they are stuck in one place because we need proximity to jobs so they accept Wars housing conditions in order to resist in the tourist place so we did a lot of like transversal research to have data to say okay this is happening at European level and then when we go to down to case studies level we have better data that can explain why and what and what are the areas which are more at risk of residential displacement and then we had another liner together with the colleagues from the University of Alicante here and some of our colleagues about the smart the smart tourist City the idea that the Smart City a reality in urban planning is something that ideally would have to benefit local populations but when the Smart City happens in a tourist place it becomes all more mixed and more ambiguous sometimes the smart city is for the mobile populations it's not for the vulnerable stock citizens of our city so our colleagues have taken a very broad approach to study stakeholder networks who is actually constructing the Smart City how uh how consistent is the ecosystem of smart tourism planning with other ecosystem the tourism industry ecosystem the planning ecosystems that are like producing uh tourist places and we have some results which are actually controversial in this sense and then those epivots will be one of our speakers at the Roundtable session so we could go deeper into that and then every k study has given some other demonstration research outputs about a wide range of topic from the disenchantment of local communities and the rise of anti-tourism discourses in Amsterdam to what we studied in Barcelona the relation between precarious labor and precarious housing which we suspect is a a number of these transversal teams so basically main thing tourism workers are not able to live anymore in the same cities where they work they are the most vulnerable the most likely to be expelled because they get the bad the worst salaries and the worst uh the the worst kind of contract that allow upwards of social Mobility Edinburgh Mega events sustaining and reproducing a precarity Jerusalem disconnected cultural communities from the mainstream tourist circuit that are seemed like a lost opportunity in terms of creating a pacified and harmonious tourism development and so what are the opportunities there uh in Lisbon a very close approach to commercial gentrification so translational dwelling as an agent that disrupts a life in a community Through the transformation of its commercial landscape lubiana the lock-in of mainstream tourism products and promotion again as a lost opportunity for the inclusion of entrepreneurs which are more peripheral in strict sense because they operate outside of the city center or because they offer different kinds of products so what is normally offered in the tourist Marketplace touring in touring we didn't talk about the tourists at all we talked about students the international student mobilities as an agent of transformation which is a also subject of ratification and marginalization but has a nightlife and The Nightlife is conflictive and finally of course Advanced and Venice has taken this approach to study the co-determination of Labor hyper specialization so the hyper specialization of the Historical Center of Venice in providing a this kind of job sir low added value you can call jobs and how this is related with unaffordable housing awkward mobility and commuting in and out of the city in the two senses which is unprivileged is uh is problematic and how it all is feeding the population Trends are always we look at the other side of the coin so how can we change this condition in order in this chicken and egg relation to Embark a new trajectory of social inclusion and I will finish with a few Legacy goals so we had a lot of research outputs in our project you can there is a QR code there you can access all our publication which are in open uh source and this is something that we give back to the scientific community and for two years we have been presenting at seminars congresses uh all our data are in open even some algorithms of analysis that we've used are in Open Access so everybody can replicate what we have done in other places with new data we have the city labs and Erica will expand on that but an exercise in citizen participation which has been very limited in time but we hope it will stick it will become something more structured in the future and finally the future opportunities will we Inspire innovators so this is the real bet of this today is today when we talk about Innovation we don't just think about classical technological innovation also that but we also think about social Innovation business Innovation policy Innovation news ways of doing policy so how how are the solutions discussed in our project how can they get to the market how can they get to the policy tables and we invite everybody and we do that like as a main dimension of our project to use our outputs our storylines our data our results our tests to dig for research and development funding in the future so why not uh smartest 2.0 in the future without me because I'm done with that beta which is really working on practical Solutions on implementation of some of the things that we have been saying until until now so this is uh this is basically it from my side I will before Sandra I think Erica is coming on stage to tell you good morning I'm here I represent the team of Turin which was the team that coordinated the world package for which was about the implementation of the city labs um City Labs were in the objective of smart exposures project has um participatory Forum which has the objective to engage the the community the business and the institutional stakeholders of age case study City to identificate Innovative forms and tools to tackle the forms of exclusion and imagine some solution in terms of more inclusive destination ecosystems so this the seventh city which implemented the city lab where answer numbers Lona Jerusalem Lisbon lubiana Turin and Venice um and the starting point of the city Labs has Paulo mentioned before uh where um an analysis of the of the local context which came up with the differences among one to to the other we have cities which are in typical over tourism cycle while others as Turin or Ljubljana are just potential growing tourist cities we have specific dimension of Mobility has Paulo mentions we have students Mobility we have tourism Mobility but we also have other kind of groups involved in in our uh in the case study and we have different effects induced by the tourism phenomena as Paolo mentioned I I will just scroll down to to show you the different cases in Amsterdam we have a disclosion of local residents but also an issue related with participation participation fatigue in in this process of involvement involvement of the residents in in thinking about solution for for the tourism phenomena in Barcelona we have the the issue of the labor precarity related to tourism workers but also the issue of the housing the housing market um in Jerusalem we have an imbalanced distribution of the wealth produced by tourism and an exclusion of some groups of the local residents Elizabeth we identified the exclusion of local residents again from the the use of the spaces but also from the commercial activities we changed to respond to the demand of the new population arriving in the city and then we have Ljubljana where the marginalization were more was more related to some stakeholders in the tourism sector in Turin where the use of the spaces were changed because of the attraction of the student population and Venice where has was mentioned before the exclusion of local residents was an issue in the labor in the mobility and India housing sector so we we set up this these City labs in in each case study City and the city lab basically shared a methodology um this means that each City lab in a context-specific way um follow the same stages during during the work but this produce of course also different impacts in in every in every city they were however all oriented towards the action they experiment with new forms of urban policies or or in also the the proposition of of possible policies for the future and explicitly involved the the local Administrations so the object is power we were already sow them so um but in Amsterdam was to think about them smarter responsible tourism ecosystem in Barcelona to work toward the data about the neighborhood change in Jerusalem to create safe and attractive spaces also in places where in some particular spaces of the city in Lisbon to work toward the collaborative space for observing the phenomena of of changing the the urban spaces in Ljubljana to work with the stakeholders of the tourism and in touring Collective rethinking of the night time while in Venice a collective analysis of the various Dynamic impacting the city so we have very different policy fields and this uh was um the reason why also methods and the techniques applied uh changed from one context to to the other um we but in general all the city lab applied this participatory approach in which a wide range range of stakeholders were were involved stakeholders were heterogeneous and this is also probably something that gives value of the work we have done because different stakeholders sit together at the same table we had experts Scholars and members of research institutes but we also have a representative of the local Administration and the local institution we had residents students representative of Grassroots Association NGO we had also entrepreneurs professional and corporate Association and data technicians and producers so as you can see they there's a really wide range of stakeholders we give us the opportunity to work towards solution that were complex and made of different dimensions so we have different levels of outcomes we have some specific outcomes that are more related with the context in which ECT lab worked so these were two strategies and policy indication in each case study for example Amsterdam Advance the co-designing practices and new method of Engagement Barcelona produce a toolkit supporting an early warning system to detect touring drive and social exclusionary process in neighborhood Jerusalem design a strategic plan for a network of inviting spaces for the city Lisbon prototyped and tested ideas which include the structural changes and intersectional collaboration Ljubljana worked towards areas of tourisms they call this Improvement and also added the missing creativity pillar to the Ljubljana ecosystem of the tourism touring Turin worked over the introduction of co-design approaches in the city policy making we which were lacking of this kind of approaches and also indicates strategic and policy indication while Venice set a set of suggested policies to be implemented using the tools of government government action but we also have as Paulo said and here I conclude some transversal outcomes first of all we propose an approach and different kind of processes which can which can be um also scaling up or reproduce in other cities they were all um related to the co-design approach and where also the occasion to co-learning and co-creation of knowledge which also remains in the local community which participate in the city lab um and just to mention the other outcomes the co-design of planning Frameworks and innovating action the build of consensus uh we in many cases um we reach on the policy initiative we we propose um and also uh well you saw the slide new the new data analytics and the use of data that some City Labs propose in terms of implement uh these use for for the wealth of the of the community and so the The Hope and the try we are now uh doing is to scale up these practices um for of course a more inclusive and resilient urban areas thanks a lot good morning everyone thanks a lot um yeah I'm Alessandro cost I'm the director of this new kid on the Block this new entity that was established not much ago formerly in March 2022 and effectively we started our operations the beginning of this year [Music] um which has very very very High ambition which is to stimulate the participation of very wide spread what broad range of Urban stakeholders in the creation and the implementation of what we call a a new integrated model for a sustainable territorial development for Venice and it's Metropolitan term whereabouts it's metropolitan area but let me I was pretty much intrigued by what I heard this morning uh and let me just turn the few things that I want to tell you upside down okay so let me start from from the very end what are the takeaway that that I I'm I'm going to I'm going to think and hopefully pass on my network that I received this morning so there are a few things that that study to to connect some dots in in the things that respectively we're we're doing the first message that I received from Paolo is that smart is not necessarily sustainable so smart City is not a sustainable city and what we are trying to do with the nine working areas where the foundation is challenging itself and is challenging the territorial system uh we exactly have posed scientifically in the middle sustainable tourism as more or less the let's see this thesaurus the well just just just to rephrase the same expression the elephant in the room or the origin of most of the the the the contradictions and dynamics that we need to readdress if you want to live in a sustainable place uh so sustainable and smart they need to find a way to go along together uh the second aspect is that co-design is the second let's say buzzword so co-designing you need to involve it's a complex system it's a it's it's a matter of complex Dynamics if you want to tackle it probably the most appropriate way is exactly this is to involve the largest number of stakeholders not just number of players in defining the let's say the policies and then the implementation the third aspect and I see Andrea there in second on the second row the third aspect are the tools and tools are what science research research and Innovation are put in at the disposal of this this Quantum vicious Quest for livability and coexistence of different uses of the same space and Big Data possibly on my on my personal opinion what really makes the difference today with respect to what it was a few years ago is that we are now able to launch my presentation no we are able to um acquire a very large number of data large number of information that we can then process in in new ways and we possibly can come out with what is needed from one side to inform and to Define policies and from the other side to implement those policies and control the effects of those policies uh okay enough talk let me let me know just get back to who we are and what we do um yeah I already told you what is the the the the the the the main aspects okay the Mainframe and the and the and the aim of the foundation uh I didn't tell you that yet that unfortunately we we have the power to promote projects to facilitate ideas to accelerate projects to facilitate the discussion among different stakeholders uh in this very moment we still don't have let's say the financial capacity of um covering the costs for for for for implementing projects ourselves but we can mobilize and this is the network that we can mobilize so it's composed by 40 different players uh some of them are public institutions administrations public administration Regional Administration local Administration um V universities say the academic system that insists in Venice composed by two universities The Academy of Fine Arts and the conservatorio we have quite a good deal of large Italian companies or the Italian branch of international corporations we involve also the infrastructural space so the port the airport but also Railways electricity gas Network so on and so forth and the financial the financial um system just telling you a little bit in advance that that in a few weeks possibly one for sure possibly two large Italian banks are going to are going to to join to join this network and with respect to what I say a few moments ago each one of this players has its own network so if they are on board of this project uh definition of initiatives and activities and selection of activities presented by all of them and they can mobilize their own networks in that sense we really have a place where co-design can be can be uh put in place just to get back to to that slide to be a little bit more analytic the nine areas that we're Focus seeing if you just look at them if you know a little bit of what what Venetian Dynamics are about they compose for the response that we would like to give or that we would like to push on very evidence and clear threats to the development of this part of the work but at the same time there are opportunities for the development of this place when it comes to innovation we Define innovation as and we let's say Foster Innovation and the deployment of innovation in this territory as a way of diversifying the economy uh and obviously the kind of innovation that we are as most of the things we're taking into consideration they need to take into account what is Paolo very old word the caring capacity of the system the possibilities for the system to uh have the the the the the or to to host certain types of activities and to neglect the presence of those activities that are not environmentally or socially sustainable for for this for this area um we haven't really as as we're entering in the second semester of our real first year of activities we haven't really tackled yet sustainability with respect to tourism but we are establishing a crossover project which is focused on defining a Target scenario for the sustainability of Venice which means let's have in that partnership all together let's brainstorm and try to identify what will be the shape of a sustainable Venice what will be the uh uh how it would be composed obviously it's not something that you can get into a full detail what do you imagine what are the communalities that you imagine in a sustainable Venice 10 15 20 years from today so at least you have Direction you have a northern star that you would you would try to to to to to to walk through walk through and in that sense we would like to couple this exercise of of let's say sketching a scenario with a tool to measure in what way and how much the different initiatives that the foundation will uh will Foster would compose in reaching that scenario and this is what we are uh we've just started working at with the idea of creating a new sustainable index with some peculiarities with some special features that are that are connected to the features of of of this of this very place in this very territory um now very last very last slides tourism a misspelled over tourism and sustainable tourism so this is the path we have that we are somehow in the second stage how do we reach the third stage and uh and I just conclude there's a few words by recalling how I began that interconnection co-design um learning from what you are developing through smartest and hopefully the smart desk 2.0 that won't see Paolo Russo involved in that but yes the main reason why I'm here is to to learn from smartest and learn from the the experience of those other cities that I know just for being myself a tourist in those cities and which is now it's it's also pretty much interesting to understand what me being a tourist there is me contributing to uh those challenges in those different places and using the tools that we have at the disposal for interpretation and hopefully collecting together uh this data Lake that we could that we could play with and as for the foundation we will be very very happy to keep following up with this discussion with you guys with Fabio with Paolo and with the entire entire group of research of the projects and thanks again for having given me this possibility [Applause]
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