E'00: The Forgotten Art of Venice: Promoting the Conservation and Awareness of External Sculpture

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Summary
- Earlier project involving Venetian public art
- Aimed to gather, analyze and publish
- Team thought they were “completing” the catalog
- Assessed many pieces’ status and “danger level”
- Explored education methods
- Suggested fundraising locations and methods
- Designed a school program to educate students, with treasure hunts and sketching exercises
- Added and cleaned up database, but not an overly significant project
- 237-page report!!

Team
Michael Bender: MIS '02; whereabouts unknown
David Finnegan: CH ‘01; whereabouts unknown
James Koniers: ME ‘02; Bensalem, PA
Kevin Lee: ME ‘02; whereabouts unknown
Samantha O’Connor: BME ‘02; whereabouts unknown

Sponsor
Founded by Professor Fabio Carrera in 1988, the Venice Project Center @ WPI is an academic initiative designed to allow undergraduate engineering students to study abroad, to apply skills and knowledge to solve real-world problems, to further develop these skills, and to provide valuable assistance to a city endangered by environmental, socio-economic and man-made factors.