A World of Potential is enriched with content and admission is free for all

• New, even richer, more playful and engaging content for the interactive exhibition "A World of Potential" in St. Mark's Square
• Starting May 8, admission to The Home of The Human Safety Net is free for all with voluntary donation

Venice - Three years after the opening of The Home of The Human Safety Net, at the Procuratie in St. Mark's Square in Venice, the interactive exhibition  A World of Potential is renewed with new content. And that's not all. Starting on 8 May, on the occasion of the opening of the Architecture Biennale, admission becomes free for all with voluntary donation.

It will also be an opportunity to visit the new exhibition "Dreams in Transit", a group exhibition curated by Art for Action – a foundation that uses art as a lever for civic engagement – on the profound and lasting impact of migration phenomena and the human condition of refugees, as seen through the lens of contemporary art. The exhibition is hosted in the Procuratie spaces renovated by Sir David Chipperfield (David Chipperfield Architects Milan), winner of the 2023 Pritzker Prize.

A World of Potential is enriched with new content, surprises, and stories of inclusion, a truly unique journey for visitors increasingly discovering their own potential, the importance of relating to others, and how together they can make a difference. Poking around in the tentacles of the multiscope dedicated to Curiosity, for example, will reveal new stories and multisensory experiences. Playing the colorful Hope roulette wheel, one will be called upon to solve small and big moments of difficulty. learning that by exercising their thinking cross-culturally and creatively, there is always a solution within our reach. For those who will try their hand at Teamwork, the final surprise for the ability to harmonize efforts will be even more surprising and varied. At the end of the journey, new stories await visitors. They are those of the beneficiaries, volunteers, and workers of The Human Safety Net who tell what strength has been instrumental in their life experience.

The common thread is the values of The Human Safety Net, the movement of people helping people active in 26 countries alongside 85 NGOs, supporting vulnerable families with children 0-6 and the integration of refugees through work and entrepreneurship.

Starting May 8, moreover, on the occasion of the opening of the Architecture Biennale, entrance to The Home of The Human Safety Net becomes free for all. This is an important and definitive change that makes the space on the third floor of the Procuratie a truly inclusive place, with a calendar of activities designed for all ages, a place for meeting, discussion and community.

‘The updated content of A World of Potential allows us to bring visitors even closer to the values of our movement of people helping people - said Emma Ursich, CEO of The Human Safety Net - . The exhibition is designed to translate the core value that underpins our Foundation's work in 26 countries into an interactive, stimulating and engaging experience: the fact that everyone has potential and the opportunity to express it by working on their strengths, thereby improving their own lives and those of their communities. This is why, three years after the opening of The Home of The Human Safety Net in St. Mark's Square, we decided to offer free admission to everyone with a voluntary donation to our programmes. This is our contribution to a global community that we hope will become increasingly involved in issues of social impact and innovation, but it is also our way of saying ‘thank you’ to all the people and organisations that have inspired and supported us over the past three years with their presence, their continuous contribution of ideas and their shared enthusiasm for what has been an extraordinary journey from the very beginning”.

It is an interactive experience designed to lead visitors to understand and connect with their own potential, discovering the best qualities in themselves and others, also through the stories of The Human Safety Net's beneficiaries, workers and volunteers. "A World of Potential" is curated by Orna Cohen, co-founder of Dialogue Social Enterprise (DSE), a Hamburg-based social enterprise that has been promoting the social inclusion of vulnerable people through exhibitions and workshops around the world since 1988, for example, with the renowed experience of ‘Dialogue in the Dark’, where visitors are guided through a dark path by a blind person.

The path A World of Potential was designed by Studio Migliore+Servetto as a progression of playful and surprising experiences that lead visitors to discover their own potential starting with values such as creativity, perseverance, gratitude, curiosity, hope, social intelligence and teamwork. These concepts have been translated into 16 interactive multimedia installations, both analog and digital, capable of engaging different audiences and generating reflection and self-analysis. The experience is available in six languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Chinese.

In the renewed version, the visitor is even more at the center of the experience. Welcomed by the people of The Human Safety Net, those who begin the journey of "A World of Potential" are immediately called to reflect on the extraordinary stories of persons who are part of the culture of our time and how, even starting from vulnerable situations, we all have the potential to develop our strengths. In the course of the interactive journey, then, visitors have the opportunity to try their hand at different experiences and test their strengths, training them and measuring themselves against new and surprising challenges. As a final step, visitors can truly join the network through a voluntary donation that supports the programmes of The Human Safety Net. A simple, yet meaningful gesture that added to the others can really make a difference for a more inclusive world.

The Home of The Human Safety Net is open every day except Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
On Sundays, the terraces are open.
For information and reservations, visit thehumansafetynet.org.

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