An unusual attraction in the heart of Venice: The Human Safety Net House offers fun activities for children, families, and the curious. What to see and do this weekend: Culture, Technology, and Social Inclusion.
A mix of Design, History, and Innovation to interact with the exhibits, Playing, Touching, recognizing the value of Empathy, and exploring human potential. A unique and surprising interactive experience to explore our strengths and unleash our Potential.
The Home of The Human Safety Net
A unique place, in the heart of Venice designed to be the Home of a movement of people helping people and to welcome an open network of individuals, organizations and institutions committed to the issues of development and social inclusion
The 2,500 square meter area dedicated to The Human Safety Net is located on the third floor and has four distinct spaces: the interactive exhibition, the Café, the Hub and the auditorium, The Hall, with event space
A World of Potential and collateral activities
We believe that no one should be prevented from developing their potential. This is the message that is transmitted through “A World of Potential”, the interactive exhibition hosted on the third floor of the Procuratie Vecchie, Home of The Human Safety Net, in Piazza San Marco, in Venice.
Open to all and developed around the theme of personal awareness, “A World of Potential” offers visitors an immersive and interactive experience to explore and connect with their own character strengths strong>, allowing them to see the best qualities in the people around them too.
The Art Studio within the exhibition itinerary, a large open space is dedicated to the Art Studio, designed to accommodate the works of artists who interpret the themes inherent to The Human Safety Net programs and the values and the strengths expressed in the permanent exhibition “A World of Potential”.
The exhibition was conceived by Migliore+ Servetto as a progression of experiences that lead visitors to discover their own potential starting from values such as creativity, perseverance, gratitude, curiosity, hope, social intelligence and teamwork. These abstract concepts have been translated into 16 interactive multimedia installations, both analogue and digital, capable of involving the most diverse audiences and generating reflections and self-analysis.
At the beginning of the 2000s, American psychologists Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson developed the VIA (Values in Action) method, through which they drew up a list of 24 strengths.
It is based on the idea that these strengths are inherent in each of us and that they can be strengthened over time.
In this way, visitors have the opportunity to increase their self-awareness and their perception of the world. It is something real, which acts on the senses, on memory and arouses positive emotions. But it is also an experience that creates a passage from “I” to “we”.
The exhibition is curated by Orna Cohen, co-founder of Dialogue Social Enterprise (DSE), a social enterprise based in Hamburg, Germany, which since 1988 has promoted the social inclusion of vulnerable people through exhibitions and workshops around the world.
Home of The Human Safety Net
Procuratie Vecchie
– Entrance 1: Piazza San Marco 105 (Corte Maruzzi)
in case of high water
– Entrance 2: Orseolo Basin, San Marco
Venice
Veneto – Italy
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