Developed during a two-day gathering at TBA21’s Ocean Space, the Venice Agreement emerged from the transdisciplinary work of Ensayos and WCS-Chile, with support from the Greifswald Mire Centre. The project was curated by Camila Marambio of Ensayos and shaped through the collaborative design and organisational efforts of Bárbara Saavedra, Nicole Püschel, and Antonieta Eguren of WCS-Chile, alongside Susanne Abel and Jan Peters from the Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Centre.

The igniting sparks of the Agreement were kindled during the Second Bi-national Peatland Seminar between Chile and Argentina, which seeded both the Patagonian Peatland Initiative and the curatorial project Turba Tol. The shared ethos across Ensayos, the Peatland Initiative, and Turba Tol - deeply transdisciplinary in nature - carried the vision forward: to convene ecological scientists, conservationists, climate policy experts, First Nations representatives, and environmental artists in crafting a new kind of declaration.

This novel declaration was shaped by an editorial committee that included Chilean graphic designer Rosario Ureta, and was ultimately signed by 38 participants - a moment of shared commitment rooted in both the local and planetary urgency of peatland care.