Navigara AquaGranda

The AquaGranda project was conceived and curated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Science Gallery Venice in collaboration with the partner institutions of the Venice Research and Innovation District (DVRI), the scientific partnership of the Tide Prediction and Reporting Center of the Municipality of Venice and the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council (Ismar-Cnr), and with the patronage of Confartigianato.

It was launched in 2020 thanks to the impetus of Odycceus, a European research project coordinated by Ca’ Foscari, to tell, through the contributions of those who had experienced it, the exceptional high water that had shocked Venice in November 2019.

In these months, images, videos, chats and voice notes have been collected – as if they were precious objects, fragments of recent memory – by processing thousands of data. It is about 41,000 total contents, from 14 thousand authors, 6500 images, 782 videos, 58 audio, 98 documents, all contributions from various sources such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Telegram, Youtube, Reddit, Mediacloud.