Remida – The Creative Recycling Centre

The Remida Centre in Reggio Emilia is a project and a place where research is conducted on sustainability and creativity starting from industrial waste materials. The Centre is visited every year by more than 6,000 people like teachers, artists, students, administrators and interested people coming from all over the world.

Area

Sustainability

Focus

Creativity , Eco-empathy , Materials , Creative recycling , Sustainability

Duration

1996 - In progress

Partner

“The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.”

Sustainability is one of the most urgent and important issues of today.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, signed by the governments of the 193 UN member countries, sets the fight against climate change among its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Since 1996 Remida has been proposing a pedagogy of sustainability to seek a shift in perspective, new models of thinking and new practices that respect the human being, the environment, and the planet.

For more than 25 years, the Remida Centre has been involved in sustainability, creativity and research on industrial waste materials, where scraps are intended as an educational resource for schools, institutions, and citizens.

The Remida Centre recovers waste materials from the production chain, wraps that are not just waste but that become an object of research and an educational resource for visits, workshops, seminars and professional development courses open to institutions, bodies and citizens. This experience has given life to a network of centres inspired by Remida Reggio Emilia and which today is composed of 12 different centres in Italy and around the world.

Remida recovers more than 15 tons of waste materials every year, including production remnants, unsold or faulty materials from more than 200 companies in the area and then offers them free of charge to schools and associations.

Every year in May Remida organises the Remida Day, a very popular event in the city that attracts more than 10,000 visitors.

26 years

of activity

30 projects

+25 volunteers

who collaborate with Remida

200 companies

supplying materials

6000 visitors

every year

12 centres

building the Remida network

15 tonnes

of waste materials recovered

Latest updates

31 March 2023

Let’s build a community together of Parco Innovazione

Here the video telling of the last appointment of community building path that is addressed to companies, institutions and research...

27 February 2023

Illustrator Ashild Kanstad Johnsen on visit in Reggio Emilia as Remida’s host

Double date with a workshop on creativity and materials for children from 6 years upwards

20 February 2023

La materia è un linguaggio che ci aiuta a pensare con le mani

The interview dedicated to Remida in the area of the cycle “Buona Questa!” of Radio Inblu2000

13 February 2023

Progetto REUSEMED . La delegazione internazionale in visita in Italia

Project ‘Reusemed’: international delegation at Capannori to study reuse practices. Institution and entity from Spain, Jordan and Tunisia are going...

18 January 2023

Connections of expertise, good community practices and the will to do in Reggio Emilia.

On the Corriere Buone Notizie we talk about the Regeneration Project

19 October 2022

360° sustainability with Edulren

Online il nuovo sitoweb con risorse e attività per esplorare e approfondire il mondo della transizione ecologica

16/10/2022

Rigenerazioni: Santa Croce associations together for Domeniche al Centro

Activities and readings for children and families and a round table discussion on neighborhood projects to create resilient communities.

18 September 2022

TERRA MADRE: Salone del Gusto 2022 arrives in Turin

From sep. 22th to sep. 26th: atelier and workshop at the Iren stand about Sensazioni and Rigenerazioni (Sensation and Regeneration).

02/09/2022 - 04/09/2022

"La Scelta": the Emergency Festival in Reggio Emilia

From Sept. 2nd to 4th meetings, debates and workshop will be held to reflect together on current events

13 May 2022

Quattro racconti in Croce

Una passeggiata itinerante per Viale Ramazzini alla scoperta delle storie sul quartiere Santa Croce

10 May 2022

Al via nel quartiere Santa Croce di Reggio Emilia il progetto Rigenerazioni

Un anno e mezzo di laboratori, eventi e buone pratiche di sostenibilità e comunità per mettere a valore le esperienze...

05 May 2022

Cento Strade per Unire

Sabato 21 maggio torna la 7^ edizione della giornata di festa nel quartiere Santa Croce di Reggio Emilia

04 May 2022

Lettere all'Universo: a Reggio Emilia torna la magia di Reggionarra

Dal 9 al 15 maggio spettacoli teatrali, fiabe, narrazioni, laboratori a cielo aperto invaderanno la Città delle Storie

23 February 2022

All'Ex Mangimificio Caffarri i futuri spazi del Centro Remida Reggio Emilia

Martedì 22 febbraio il sopralluogo con le istituzioni per l'avvio del cantiere

20 December 2021

Re.actions to regenerate educating communities

Applications for the Servizio Civile Universale at FRC are now open for four young people aged 18 to 28

30 November 2021

In missione per il progetto Pedakos

Lo staff di Remida e Pause in Kosovo per conoscere i partner del progetto

05 November 2021

Sfide: Festival delle Scienze 2021 di Roma

Workshop e webinar online e in presenza per insegnanti e ragazzi dal 22 al 28 novembre

04 October 2021

Re-creations: between materials, food and ideas

On Monday, October 11 at Chiostri di San Pietro to talk and play with materials

20 September 2021

Regenerations

Fondazione Reggio Children has been selected to take part in the Formula initiative by Intesa Sanpaolo in collaboration with Fondazione...

07 January 2021

Pensare e agire comunità educanti

Fondazione Reggio Children aderisce al Servizio Civile Universale mettendo a disposizione 4 posti

15 November 2020

Remida+ Online

Il materiale di scarto industriale si trasferisce dagli spazi di Remida all’ambiente digitale. Un programma di appuntamenti interattivi, pratici, sperimentali,...