Unruly marshes : unveiling paradoxes of turbid landscape restoration porject in the Venice Lagoon

This conference held by Amina Chouairi, landscape architect, resaercher, lecturer at Wageningen University, focuses on her PhD dissertation defended in the IUAV Venice on 01.12.2025.

Unruly Marshes arises from a personal disciplinary, and political necessity to rethink how ecological restoration is conceived and practised, particularly in wet environments where ambiguity, instability, and layered histories are the rule rather than the exception. Set in the hybrid and transitional landscape of the Venice Lagoon, the research engages with restoration projects not to propose better solutions, but to unpack their limitations, contradictions, ans embedded assumptions.