Venice Project Center

Venice Project Center
Established	1988
Director	Fabio Carrera
Staff	Alberto Gallo Andrea Mancuso
Address	San Polo 1932/A Fondamenta de le Tette Venice, 30125 Italy
Phone	+39 041 523 3209
Fax	+39 041 241 9344
Website	veniceprojectcenter.org
List of projects	Click here

The Venice Project Center, a research facility operated by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was founded in 1988 by Fabio Carrera. Since then, more than 180 projects have been completed (by more than 640 students) addressing a host of challenges, from maintaining the city's famous canals, analyzing its boat traffic, and cataloging its public art.

The Venice Project Center's website is located at veniceprojectcenter.org. Other VPC projects include:

• Venipedia
• Venice Dashboard
• De'Barbari Explorer
• PreserVenice
• uScript
• Twitter feed with tide forecasts

WPI student projects in the VPC office in Venice

To see photos of VPC students and projects, please visit the Venice 2.0 Gallery.

Directions to the Venice Project Center

Take Boat Line 1 down the Grand Canal to the Rialto Mercato boat stop. Disembark and take a right, walking towards the Rialto Market (Campo de la Pescaria). You will skirt along the southwest side of the market (with a view of the Grand Canal), and head for the bridge after you walk underneath the arches of the building that constitutes the roof of the covered fish market. Cross the bridge and walk along the Fondamenta de l'Olio (still along Grand Canal) until you reach Calle dei Boteri (1st left).
Walk all the way down Calle dei Boteri, then take a right and walk through the little square and down the very narrow street which emerges onto the Calle de le Carampane. Take a right. There will be a restaurant on your right. Walk past the restaurant until you come up to a bridge. Do not cross it, but walk to the end of Fondamenta de le Tette, look for number 1932/A and the WPI label. Knock on the door.

How to get to the Rialto Mercato boat stop from airport

When you land at Venice “Marco Polo” airport, you have two options to reach the Rialto Mercato boat stop:

1 - by land: you need to get to Piazzale Roma with public bus line 5 (time table / bus roadmap), from Piazzale Roma take pubblic boat line 1 (direction Rialto) and disembark at RIALTO MERCATO

2 - by water (venetian-style): you can use water public boat service ALILAGUNA BLUE (time table and roadmap) to reach Fondamente Nuove boat stop, then follow path on map below (Figure 4). This is the easiest way...
From Ca' d'Oro take pubblic boat line 1 (direction Rialto) to RIALTO MERCATO (one stop); alternatively you can take "Gondola Traghetto" and cross the Canal Grande with a Gondola!! It only costs 50 euro cents!

Photo gallery

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  2010 Canals project
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  2010 History project
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  2010 Shops project
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  2010 Ships project
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  The 2008 Genesis team takes their own DNA samples
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  All VPC students in 2007
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  2006 Taxi Re-engineering
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  2006 Food Stores project
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  Church Floors project, 2005
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  Sea level reconstruction in 2004
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  1995 Bells and Bell Towers
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  Group dinner, 1995
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  Venice Project Center, 1995
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  Saskia Rosas and Enith Morillo on the roof of the Basilica di San Marco, E'1994
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  Lagoon archeology, 1993
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  Acid Fog project in 1991
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  Acid Fog project in 1991
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  VPC students in 1990