OUR ACTIVITIES

The Social Cooperative Rio Terà dei Pensieri organizes artisanal laboratories and service activities within the prisons of the Venetian area.

COSMETICS LAB

Our brand “ Rio Terà dei Pensieri” offers a line of traditional products such as soaps and smelling salts, a natural line and a certified-organic line.

SILKSCREEN LAB

We print on fabric for personalized clothing items, and courtesy accessories and gadgets, with services that are adaptable to any specific demands the customer may have.

RECYCLED PVC LAB

The cooperative uses PVC materials to make its models while respecting the environment and guaranteeing an object that is coherent with ethical and eco-sustainability chains.

ORGANIC PRODUCE GARDEN

We work six thousand square meters of terrain, using organic agricultural methods, where we obtain seasonal vegetables and many of the essences used in our cosmetics lab.

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WORK

We invest in people and their desire for a new chance, with opportunities for reintegration in the work place and the inclusion of inmates from prisons in Venice.
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ETHICS

We offer people a second chance to start over, promoting the idea of a society that is more collaborative, fair and attentive to diversity.
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THE ENVIRONMENT

All our products are artisanal and follow a production chain which pays attention to recycling material, saving resources and respecting the environment.

We invest in people’s desire to to have a second chance, because everyone deserves a chance to start over.

Rio Terà dei Pensieri oversees the work reintegration of prisoners and people under criminal judgment in the territory of Venice.

We invest in people’s desire to to have a second chance, because everyone deserves a chance to start over.

Rio Terà dei Pensieri oversees the work reintegration of prisoners and people under criminal judgment in the territory of Venice

OUR ACTIVITIES

The Social Cooperative Rio Terà dei Pensieri organizes artisanal laboratories and service activities within the prisons of the Venetian area.

RECYCLED PVC
LAB

The cooperative uses PVC materials to make its models while respecting the environment and guaranteeing an object that is coherent with ethical and eco-sustainability chains.

COSMETICS
LAB

Our brand “Rio Terà dei Pensieri” offers a line of traditional products such as soaps and smelling salts, a natural line and a certified-organic line.

SILKSCREEN
LAB

We print on fabric for personalized clothing items, and courtesy accessories and gadgets, with services that are adaptable to any specific demands the customer may have.

ORGANIC PRODUCE
GARDEN

We work six thousand square meters of terrain, using organic agricultural methods, where we obtain seasonal vegetables and many of the essences used in our cosmetics lab.

PROCESS COLLETTIVO

Process Collettivo is the collaboration project between renowned artist Mark Bradford and Rio Terà dei Pensieri social cooperartive to create change opportunities for marginalized people and increase job and training activities in prison as tools for their social rescue.

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THOUGHTS FROM RIO TERÀ

All the news and updates from the Cooperative

A new “All female” project

A new "All female" project The new book by Rio Terà dei Pensieri comes out on May 10 In the year in which the social cooperative […]

Daydreaming INSIDE-OUT

DAYDREAMING INSIDE-OUT In occasion of the first year celebration of the collaboration between Mark Bradford and Rio Terà dei Pensieri through the Process Collettivo project Bradford has entrusted the architect Fabiola […]

Process Collettivo anniversary party – May 26 2018

Process Collettivo anniversary party - May 26 2018 Saturday May 26 we celebrated with Mark Bradford Process Collettivo shop and resource center's 1st anniversary. Process Collettivo […]

SKILLFULLY AND ARTISTICALLY BAG

"Malefatte": unique and original bags and accessories made by prisoners by saving and recycling used PVC material.