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The address of my new temporary home in the island of venezia. It forms the outpost base for doing the EMU third semester course, which took off like a speeding bullet. The island is… nice. Small romantic streets and bridges with soft street lightning and singing gondolieri go together with a city that falls asleep at 12 o’clock: it is truly a cinderella city. The gondola (magical carriage) after 12 is replaced by the noisy motor boat (pumpkin). Contradictory spoken, this is what makes the city more attractive, it gives the mummified city a beating heart. 

Except for the daily struggle of getting up and starting to work, my biggest fight is with the hordes of tourists that pollute my path between key places in daily life. I have noticed that the only way of handling them is… patience, also considering and asking yourself whether you yourself are also still a tourist or not. Living 5 minutes walk from both Rialto bridge and Piazza San Marco has its tole. 

University is the main object of occupation here. Ricerca, in Italian ‘research’, is the main element of design and handling studio content, which in fact is by far my worst aspect in doing design (amongst many others for sure). This made my scientific reading experience multiply by several factors already. (having read 1 book )

This is the understanding after one month of Venezia, still fresh and young. Some photographic impressions: