Process Collettivo

Why it matters: Process Collettivo is the retail storefront of Rio Terà dei Pensieri, a social cooperative that has run workshops inside Venice’s prisons since the 1990s, giving inmates paid jobs making goods for sale to the public. The shop opened in 2017 in the Frari district, backed by artist Mark Bradford, who represented the US at that year’s Venice Biennale. Browse the Malefatte line of bags and totes cut and sewn from recycled advertising banners, plus screen-printed t-shirts and cosmetics also made in the cooperative’s prison labs. Sales fund job placement for people leaving prison, so a bag bought here doubles as a small vote for reintegration over recidivism.