Art and science initiative
May 19 – July 31, 2023

Indoors: Ca’ Foscari Zattere – Cultural Flow Zone, Dorsoduro 1392, Venice
Outdoors: Cortile Grande, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dorsoduro 3246, Venice

The Cooling Solution is a scientific project that uses photography to investigate how people of different socioeconomic backgrounds around the world adapt to high temperatures and humidity. It combines scientific findings with personal stories, offering a visual journey through people’s lived experiences of ineffective and inefficient cooling, hypercooling, heat dumping, vernacular architecture, and cutting-edge cooling technologies in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Italy.

Photography by Gaia Squarci, research by the ENERGYA team at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, led by prof. Enrica De Cian, Ca’  Foscari University of Venice and Fondazione CMCC, curation by Kublaiklan, project coordination by Elementsix.

Indoors: Ca’ Foscari Zattere – Cultural Flow Zone, Dorsoduro 1392, Venice
Outdoors: Cortile Grande, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dorsoduro 3246, Venice

HOURS
Cortile Grande, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Monday through Friday: 8am-6pm
Saturdays: 8am-1pm
Free entry; June 2nd and 3rd closed for holidays

Tesa 1, Ca’ Foscari Zattere
Monday through Saturday: 10am-6pm
Sunday 3pm-6pm
Free entry; June 2nd and 3rd closed for holidays

VERNISSAGE
May 19, 2023 – 5pm – Cortile Grande, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dorsoduro 3246
Introduction by Cristina Baldacci from THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities,
followed by a guided tour of the Zattere Cultural Flow Zone by photographer Gaia Squarci,
scscientific coordinator Enrica De Cian, curator Kublaiklan, and project coordinator Elementsix.

ORGANIZED BY

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)
CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change