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.


WORK

ETHICS

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.
THOUGHTS FROM RIO TERÀ
All the news and updates from the Cooperative
SKILLFULLY AND ARTISTICALLY BAG
"Malefatte": unique and original bags and accessories made by prisoners by saving and recycling used PVC material.