23th — 26th, September 2025
This year’s festival will explore 4 overarching themes that correlate with these approaches to placemaking, as well as with the host city’s distinct goals. We aim to bring together knowledge and perspectives from around the world to explore:
This edition unfolds across Reggio Emilia’s most inspiring venues—from historic monasteries and neoclassical theatres to reimagined factories and innovation hubs—each space reflecting the city’s unique blend of cultural heritage, creativity, and forward-thinking transformation.
Binario49 is a flexible space hosting a rich cultural event program. It focuses on developing solidarity economy projects that promote inclusion, social cohesion, and innovation, fostering community engagement and sustainable social change through collaborative actions and innovative initiatives.
The Chiostri di San Pietro, a renovated 16th-century Benedictine monastery in Reggio Emilia, is a cultural and social innovation hub. It serves as an international exhibition center and an open laboratory fostering participation, dialogue, and innovation in social and digital services.
The Loris Malaguzzi International Centre in Reggio Emilia is a global hub for educational innovation. Open to all ages and cultures, it fosters research and experimentation inspired by local early childhood schools, embodying the Reggio Emilia Approach®.
A project for resuing industrial waste as educational and creative material. It recovers 15 tons yearly, redistributing it to schools. Remida inspires environmental awareness, transforming discarded matter into a poetic, intellectual, and expressive resource.
Reggiane Parco Innovazione is a innovation hub born from the restoration of historic industrial buildings. It connects universities, research centers, businesses, and public institutions to foster research, entrepreneurship, and talent in a unique setting blending past and future.
Coress is a social cooperative promoting community well-being through quality social and healthcare services. Its entrepreneurial model thrives on synergy and reciprocity with the local area, maintaining strong roots, belonging, and history within the community.
La Polveriera is a multifunctional center in Reggio Emilia, set in former military hangars. One hosts residences and social cooperatives; the other offers an open space with restaurants, offices, and workshops, promoting inclusion, urban regeneration, and community collaboration.
The Romolo Valli Municipal Theatre, inaugurated in 1857 and named after the actor Romolo Valli in 1980, is a neoclassical opera house in Reggio Emilia. It hosts opera, ballet, concerts, and drama performances, featuring a grand stage and a rich cultural heritage.
The art collections, the historical sites and the exhibition centres of Reggio Emilia City Museums have, for a long time, helped to develop the cultural identity of Reggio Emilia’s people. Natural, archaeological, artistic and historical finds from the entire Province and from the five continents, are exposed and promoted in the network of the Reggio Emilia City Museums.
Born back in 1973 from Vittorio Benevelli’s insight into the needs of the elderly, between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 the Centre underwent major upgrades to its facilities and furnishings, adapting to the evolving needs of its members and the wider community, with a modern and youthful approach aimed at attracting younger people as well.
