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A lagoon as a living laboratory
Western researchers use Venice to study how climate change changes the relationship between water, infrastructure and daily life.
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The context
Where the work begins
The Venice Lagoon is both a place and a question. It shows how climate risk arrives through tides, buildings, economies and the routines that make a city feel normal.
The takeaway
What follows
Western's living-lab approach keeps the research grounded in observation: understand the system, listen to the people inside it and design for the conditions that are actually coming.
Source reporting
A lagoon as a living laboratory
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