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The turtle is still thriving today, but in a much bigger tank in our dining room. The party assembled for lunch is a large one, consisting of eleven adults and ten children, but the da Mostos take it in their stride.

Sitting in the dining room with its neoclassical frescoes soaring to the ceiling, one cannot help feeling that the palazzo is on the large side for a family of five.

In fact Francesco and Jane share it not only with his parents, but with some fifteen other families, who rent a variety of flats at the top of the building. Everyone respects everybody else. LB : It would be a dream if more cities would learn from this model.

I happen to be from Vienna JM : Oh, Vienna has it from the top down what with all its balls and the coffee shops. LB : It lives off that past. Such sense of nostalgia can have harmful consequences if we consider Brexit. Venice Calls, the initiative that brought people together from around the city to help clean it after the disastrous high tide of November 12 th , was a project that has its roots on the island, not the mainland.

JM : You must meet my son who is one of the founders of Venice Calls! LB : The wider the range of ages in this interview series, the merrier!

The whole point of them is to emphasize equality as a necessity born out of natural circumstance. LB : Venice has always been a mirror. Whatever happens here tends to happen elsewhere. I have come to think of Venice as a mother of all cities, both in good and in bad times. The real tragedy is that as this model city, it is being maltreated by what acts like a rowdy group of adolescents unable to enter a balanced relationship with the place that has given them so much. It is so sad that you see little children screaming their heads off, grabbing onto an iPad because their parents decide, after two hours of neglecting them, to take it away from them.

Children become hooked on gadgets if there is no continuous relationship between the parents and their children. LB : This on and off business hardly works, does it? This is the second interview I am having about Venice where the topic of parenthood comes into the picture. It upsets me to think that we are, apparently increasingly, brought up by parents that have too much else on their mind and that, therefore, we grow up as chance commands.

We are all being born into specific contexts and our current world is dominated by technology. It is not surprising if it becomes impossible to develop focus when from home we see communication reduced to screens. Venice Calls is a perfect example of innate goodness. JM : Yes, you must talk to them.

It is an initiative driven by pure and wonderful objectives but then there is so much rot that they have to get through. But it is more than just that physical act. The hope that they gave everybody in what was one of the most awful moments of the millennium, a world that seems to have imploded And they set up committees of scientists thinking of how to protect the lagoon, of people speaking of tide defenses But completely.

JM : Institutions, politicians, together with economic interests, even people from the cultural sphere. For all these years, the Fenice, has been getting most of its money from the Consorzio Venezia Nuova while many people knew that what they Cons. Now the Fenice is getting their money from the cruise terminal and the port authority. What does that tell you about the links between culture and civic life and morals even?! We just had this referendum on the 1 st of December and that was the big chance to make a step-change, a clean break, a fresh start where to do things right.

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But in my opinion, it feels like a duty, so we gladly accept to stay here. LagunaB is a glass company founded in by Marie Brandolini, who translated her artistic spirit and her love for Venice, where she relocated from Paris, into a collection of artisanal tableware designs. Thanks to a team of young Venetians, as well as a forward-thinking take on communication, LagunaB aims to highlight the potentials of Venice not only as a beautiful and historic city but also as a unique work environment and lifestyle destination for a global community.

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Jane Da Mosto: Roots! One can cut them, but you have to take care of them before making an extreme choice…. But it would be difficult anywhere else. Then I left when I was 15, I returned at 25 because I felt the roots calling, as you say. That sense of belonging is important in life. I have never felt like I belong in any other place. Maybe I felt like I belonged to someone, but never to someplace, but Venice. Jane Da Mosto: It is the way of life in Venice that makes you feel you belong here.

Take for example yesterday, an amazing October day: I swam, I ate a lot. The problem is that you are detached from the reality of the world outside of Venice.

Jane Da Mosto: I too feel out of place in Milan. Together we are working on very constructive and positive projects but at We Are Here Venice we cannot ignore the underlying issues. We can do a lot with specific projects but not everything and we are also trying to operate in innovative ways.

So to balance our carbon footprint through the regeneration works of the lagoon ecosystem. We are almost ready to go. Jane Da Mosto: We know what we want and need to do, only the last steps are missing. Jane da Mosto, born in South Africa and raised in London, is an environmental scientist and activist based in Venice.

She studied at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London and worked as a consultant on sustainable development and carried out research on climate change and lagoon ecology. A Venetian resident since , Jane established We are here Venice WahV in , an NGO that operates as a trans-disciplinary think tank and activist platform with a mission to change the future of the city, highlighting the need to protect the lagoon and rebuild a more resilient resident population.

Alongside WahV specific projects, Jane is active in the community and is President of Pan di Zenzero, a pedagogical project for early childhood. Jane Da Mosto: The story of this installation is an example of the positive way we operate. In this case, our connection is through the collective of architects Assemble invited by the VAC Foundation , to propose something for the garden that had become a construction site during the restoration of the building.

Assemble does projects linked to the local community and did not feel equipped for a project for Venice not being from here; so they asked us at We Are Here Venice to propose something that would be significant for the area.