There is a future of possibilities we haven't yet dreamed of.
imagine a stone city built on water a thousand years ago.

MISSION

Give individuals time to maximise their potential, to see value in others and to problem solve in an age of universal simulation.

Begun as a response to the global mental health challenge, this program soon grew to include questions around lifespan development, lifelong learning, human displacement and institutional integrity. These all coexist with age old existential questions.

The most important connection remains with yourself.

IN/VEST YOURSELF

Technology has given us the opportunity to think more about quality of life. Algorithms, a new sense of scale and AI another dimension. While climate change is drawing us towards a sustainable society for everyone.

This conscious future-making, at the intersection of art, science and nature, is at the core of the Venetian Workshop.

For hundreds of years artists and intellectuals have profited from the freedom, time, space and support of residencies to focus full-time on their creative life.

Location is always part of the magic formula. Like Venice, a global centre of inspiration, collaboration and creativity.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay

‘Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta.’

Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization, Meredith F. Small

BOOKSHELF

Are we greater than the sum of our parts? Are we science fiction? Or are we more basic than we’ve ever imagined? What do you already know about how you want to live in the future — physically, spatially, communally and aesthetically?