As part of the International Cultural Events at Villa Farsetti, in Santa Maria di Sala (metropolitan city of Venice), another edition of LABORATORY VENICE is taking place - under the motto "SPACE AND LIGHT IN ART" - which started on May 15 and will last until June 2. This year, the laboratory took the form of a symposium combined with an exhibition, arranged not only in Villa Farsetti itself - a three-storey baroque palace with a central rotunda plan - but also in the adjacent (newly reconstructed) Theater interiors.
The following universities were invited to participate in LABORATORY VENICE 2024: University of Zielona Góra, University of Venice, University of Padua, University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Academy of Fine Arts in Split, Academy of Arts in Szczecin, Wrocław University of Technology and Bydgoszcz University of Technology.
The University of Zielona Góra is represented by 6 architecture students under the supervision of Dr. Małgorzata Czerniawska: Katarzyna Ciesielska, Łukasz Fliger, Wiktoria Lewandowska, Agnieszka Rohde, Filip Salamon and Jan Włosiński.
The invitation to participate in this project was a consequence of last year's visit to the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering by architect Marino Zancanelli - the creator of the idea of LABORATORY VENICE - who presented this year's edition and conducted two days of consultations on the submitted topics.
In the end, the following were qualified to participate in the symposium and exhibition:
modular mosaic projects (students 31ARCH-SP),
mural projects (students 21+22ARCH-SJ),
museum project (students 21+22ARCH-SJ).
The students' works - presented during the symposium and exhibited at the accompanying exhibition - met with lively interest from the audience and resulted in many interesting proposals, including an invitation to collaborate with the Municipality of Santa Maria di Sala on the design and realization of a mural in the City Council meeting room, as well as a proposal to collaborate with the University of Venice as part of the Erasmus program.
At the exhibition, Dr. Małgorzata Czerniawska also showed her two works from the "Glimpses" series.
Photographs: private archive
