Mapping contemporary Venice is a process, launched by VIU and Moleskine, involving intellectuals, local and national institutions and creatives to give birth to a new visual collective imaginary of the contemporary Venice: a project which will manifest itself both offline and online and which will be presented at an exhibition during Architecture Biennale vernissage (August 25) on the island of San Servolo, where VIU is located.

The objective is to find, interpret and portray the signals of contemporaneity which are present on the territory, or to imagine new ones to overlap to what we see everyday. Vega Science Park, the new Calatrava bridge, San Servolo and Certosa islands, the Arsenale complex, Palazzo Grassi and the recently restored Punta della Dogana art center, the Vedova Foundation projected by architect Renzo Piano, the glass factories located between Murano island and the mainland, the shoe district alongside the Brenta river, the creative and technological incubator H-farm, Fabrica in Treviso are just some of the elements of a metropolitan Venice which needs to be visualized and told in a totally new way.