Finalizing the Fourth Objective

This past week, the IQP made clarifying efforts to complete our fourth objective, create a plan for the long term preservation of the Venetian bells and bell towers. To maintain and preserve Venice’s bell towers and bells, public support is vital. A plan was devised to raise interest and funding in the bell towers and several possible ideas were brainstormed by the group. We worked off of the five main concepts of public support, call to action, historical committees assistance, merchandise development and alternative uses of bell towers. The following research strategies and methods were then adopted for further development. These included accessing and comparing previous efforts in other cities such as Paris, France, which promotes preservation through church donation boxes and miniature replicas of historical buildings in the form of keychains, t-shirts, and music boxes (examples are seen below).