A different Venice

The Northern Lagoon is part of the world-famous Venetian Lagoon in the Italian region of Veneto, but, in contrast to the well-known and exploited Central Lagoon, has managed to preserve its original landscape to a high degree. The future of this tranquil landscape, however, is anything but certain. Its further existence calls for landscape design interventions that consider the balance of three dialectical pairs: land & water, human & non-human and nature & artifice. A related comprehensive design strategy has to focus on the entire lagoon as one system where many environmental, morphological, and social singularities coexist.