Systemic Cycles type of kayaking across the Venice Lagoon, Systemic Cycles Guide training. June 2024.
Systemic Cycles type of kayaking across the Venice Lagoon, Systemic Cycles Guide training. June 2024.

Bioregional Sensing

Designing Resilient Regenerative Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Building Bridges to Resilient Futures
25-30 April 2025, Venice Lagoon, Italy

 

This Bioregional Sensing event, a Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS) initiative organized by the MonViso Institute in partnership with Camping Ca’Savio, explores the interplay between natural ecosystems and human systems in fostering resilience, for the broader Venice Lagoon and its hydro-geographical relation with up- and downstream flows with the neighbouring Alps.

This two-part event immerses participants in a transformative experience designed to inspire, educate, co-design and mobilize for designing toward regenerative futures.


Part 1
Systemic Cycles 

The event begins with a Systemic Cycles tour, a guided multi-day bicycle trip following the three major Alpine rivers of this bioregion — Brenta, Sile, and Piave. These rivers, once vital suppliers of fresh water, nutrients, and sediments to the Venice Lagoon, are central to understanding the lagoon’s ecological and socio-economic dynamics. Participants will cycle downstream from the Alps to Camping Ca’Savio on Venice’s offshore coast, engaging in “insight-seeing” rather than mainstream sightseeing, contributing to long-term bioregional mapping and sensing.

 

Systemic Cycles with Camping Ca'Savio staff. Experience Lab. September 2024.
Systemic Cycles with Camping Ca'Savio staff. Experience Lab. September 2024.

The SC tour combines regional exploration with systemic learning, allowing participants to:

  understand more about the complex ecosystem of the Venice Lagoon and the challenges it faces in achieving resilience and regeneration,

— experience a moving social adventure that shifts the perspective from passive observation to active engagement,

— explore bio-regional supply chain systems and their potential for circularity and regeneration by mapping flows, and getting in direct contact with people we meet.

The Systemic Cycles tour blends active learning with a practical understanding of systemic design, offering an innovative approach to fostering ecological awareness and sustainable tourism. This SC tour counts as well as a module of the SC guide training program.

Bioregional sensing with custodians of the Venice Lagoon bioregion curated by MonViso Institute. Experience Lab, Camping Ca'Savio. September 2024.
Bioregional sensing with custodians of the Venice Lagoon bioregion curated by MonViso Institute. Experience Lab, Camping Ca'Savio. September 2024.

Part 2
Unconference: Building Bridges to Resilient Futures

The event’s second half takes place at Camping Ca’Savio, in and around the innovative Experience Lab. This physical space is a hub for bioregional learning, exchange, and collaboration, setting the stage for two days of dynamic interaction with physical hands-on experiences and a lagoon kayak tour. 

The Experience Lab is a creative meeting space with a new multimedia VR exhibition and a physical, dialogic space for multi-sensual interaction.

Under the theme Building Bridges to Resilience Futures, the unconference invites participants to actively exchange ideas and co-create pathways for developing resilient regenerative regional futures. The character of the unconference focuses on the dialogic and direct project-specific co-creative exchange, rather than classic presentation formats.

 

The event’s host Camping CaSavio, situated between the Venice lagoon and the Adriatic sea.
The event’s host Camping CaSavio, situated between the Venice lagoon and the Adriatic sea.

Key objectives

—  Collaborative Learning: facilitating dialogue among systems thinkers, designers, local experts, and industry professionals.

—  Actionable Insights: generating strategies for
fostering regeneration in resurgent regions.

—  Cross-Sector Synergy: connecting the DRRS community with stakeholders from tourism and other sectors to build partnerships for systemic impact.

The Experience Lab encourages open dialogue, creative experimentation, and shared learning, becoming a springboard for future regional initiatives. Local host Camping Ca’Savio offers a wide variety of accommodations and has a great restaurant catering for all.

 

The event welcomes

—  DRRS community members and alumni,
—  (future) Systemic Cycles guides,
—  systems thinkers and designers,
—  any (felt) custodian of the Venice Lagoon bioregion,
—  potential project and business partners for co-creation toward bioregional resilience and regeneration.

By combining physical exploration with collaborative learning, the DRRS Bioregional Sensing event aims to weave relations between places, bioregions, people, knowledge and action, catalyzing progress toward place-specific regenerative futures, organized by DRRS alumni.

 

About Systemic Cycles

Systemic Cycles merges active exploration with systemic learning, offering a playful yet profound way to understand and enact complex systems. Participants gain insights into regional supply chain systems, engage in bioregional weaving, and contribute to building regenerative cultures.

These slow-moving physical tours by bike, kayak or similar foster an immersive, hands-on understanding of regeneration and resilience, while dialogic mapping and asking informed, directed questions on circular systems to local actors contributes to bioregional regeneration. Through asking informed questions and dialogic mapping, SC is a continuous activator for weaving people, projects, and places.


Entry fee

There are 3 variants of participation in the Bioregional Sensing event.

Variant 1: only Systemic Cycles, 25-28.04.2025
Variant 2: only Unconference, 28-30.04.2025
Variant 3: entire event 25-30.04.2025


Depending on your status, please see the fees of variants 1 and 2:

Variant 1
Systemic Cycle, 25-28.04: 

  • Regular participant: 300 EUR
  • Systemic Cycle Guide practice days: 240 EUR
  • Local residents: free
  • Students: 180 EUR


The cost of accommodation and food is not included. Each participant covers it individually.
Food: approx. 35 EUR / day
Accommodation: approx. 40 EUR/ night


Variant 2
Unconference Building Bridges to Resilient Futures, 28-30.04:

  • Regular participant: 250 EUR
  • Systemic Cycle Guide practice days: 200 EUR
  • Local residents: 50 EUR
  • Students: 170 EUR

The cost of accommodation and food is not included. Each participant covers it individually.

Food: approx. 30 EUR / day

Accommodation options at Camping Ca’Savio:

Lodge Libra

Camping Ca' Savio, Cavallino-Treporti (aktualne ceny na rok 2025)Libra Duo Lodge: Mobilheim mit Veranda in Cavallino – Camping Ca' Savio

Located at the start of the pinewood near the supermarket and both swimming pools. Perfectly positioned for a morning coffee at the sun-filled square and within 2 minutes walk of the beach.

Price: 297 EUR / 3 nights

 

Lido Mobile Home

Accomodations (Classic, Comfort, Premium mobile homes) - Ca'Savio | HomairLido: Kompaktowe i funkcjonalne domki mobilne – Camping Ca' Savio

Located a few steps away from a pedestrian path, ideal to reach the swimming pool together with kids, to go shopping at the supermarket, or to reach the bar to taste a good Italian coffee.

Price: 183 EUR / 3 nights


Variant 3
Variant 3 fee is simply the sum of variant 1 and 2 fees.
For example, if you are a regular participant and you attend the entire event, your total cost is:

300 EUR (Systemic Cycles) + 200 EUR (Unconference) = 500 EUR + accommodation and food costs.


Save the date

Bioregional Sensing, 25-30 April, 2025
Venice Lagoon, Italy

1) Systemic Cycles, 25-28 April
Brenta, Sile, and Piave watersheds

2) Unconference Building Bridges to Resilient Futures, 28-30 April
Camping Ca’Savio

 

Register for the event

Sign up for the Systemic Cycles tour or / and the Unconference until 31.03. 2025. The official registration form will be released soon.

 

Attendance cost

The details are forthcoming.

 

Specific inquries & event partnerships

Folef Hooft Graafland
DRRS Alumni & Camping Ca’Savio Local Host

email: folef@casavio.it

 

Download

Please find the Bioregional Sensing Teaser .pdf to share here.

 

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