The Northern Lagoon of Venice. Hypotheses to illustrate an invisible landscape

The traces of the past of the Northern lagoon of Venice, mostly invisible, are immersed in the water, without the possibility to be shown. This submerged archeological patrimony, which has contributed to rewrite the history of the origin of Venice tells us of a northern lagoon rich in life. An image very far from the abandonment and silence in which it lies today. Through a reinterpretation of its physical and cultural stratifications and metamorphoses, some design actions aimed at evoking and communicating this invisible history have been hypothesized. Th e design of light and ephemeral structures, such as pavilions, piers, covers, close to the archeological sites, intends to build a contemporary landscape, inhabited by its own history: that of a delicate and fluid balance between man and nature. These new places may constitute an innovative information network, a widespread experimental museum, able to revive and tell new visitors, about the complexity and importance of a past whose archaeological evidence has almost completely disappeared.