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Promoted and organized by the Venice Sustainability Foundation (VSF), the Biennale della Sostenibilità – The MOSE era was an event for reflection and international discussion on the issues of sustainable development of the territory, starting from the experiences gained in Venice and/or for Venice.

Through a dense program of conferences, workshops, exhibitions and visits, spread across several locations, the Biennale della Sostenibilità 2023 aimed to achieve multiple objectives:

• sharing the best practices of urban sustainability that emerge from our territory;
• discussing with others, in other parts of the world, who are facing similar challenges;
• positioning Venice as a place of exchange of international best practices of integrated sustainability and the Foundation as the “home” of such exchange;
• highlighting the centrality of innovation and technology in favor of sustainability.

The Biennale della Sostenibilità 2023, scheduled in Venice from June 1 to November 25 2023, placed at the center of the debate the technological and environmental success of the MOSE system, demonstrating since 2020, how it can effectively protect the city and its surroundings from extreme tidal events, while maintaining a balance with the delicate environmental system of the lagoon.

The MOSE was discussed in three ways:

• as a complex work of defense of a territory of global importance;
• as an enabling factor for a full planning of the socio-economic development of the territory defended from water;
• as a solution that allows to gain the time necessary to design the infrastructure that will protect these places when even the MOSE will no longer be functional to the purpose.

The aim of this edition, called “The MOSE era”, was to propose to the world the Venetian experience as a concrete example of integrated sustainability, replicable in the future in other places of the planet.