REGGIO WEEK · REGGIO EMILIA
Reggio Week Library
Books, tools and activities for teachers, school leaders and families.
Our partners
Loris Malaguzzi International Centre
Home of Reggio Children, with exhibitions, ateliers and a bookshop.
Remida, the Creative Recycling Centre
A creative recycling centre that treats industrial offcuts as materials for research.
Scuola in Golena
A preschool in the Bassa Reggiana built around outdoor education and nature pedagogy.
Nido Iride
The timber infant-toddler centre in Guastalla, from its architects, Mario Cucinella.
FOUNDATIONS
Understanding the Reggio Emilia approach
Understanding Loris Malaguzzi
Routledge · Free PDF · Teachers, leaders
A 54-page introduction to Malaguzzi's work and legacy.
The Reggio Emilia Approach: the system
Reggio Children · Free · Everyone
How the city's schools, Reggio Children and the Foundation fit together.
The Hundred Languages of Children
Edwards, Gandini and Forman (eds) · Book · Teachers
The foundational collection on the approach.
In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia
Carlina Rinaldi · Book · Teachers, leaders
Documentation as a way of listening to children.
Rechild
Reggio Children's annual magazine · Free · Families, teachers
Short pieces on childhood and the approach.
THE ATELIER
Materials and making
Imaginary Bicycles
Remida activity sheet, Fondazione Reggio Children · Free PDF · Families, teachers
Designing and building imaginary bicycles from discarded materials.
Playing with Objects
Remida activity sheet, Fondazione Reggio Children · Free PDF · Families, teachers
Exploring and transforming everyday objects found at home.
Scintillae
Reggio Children Foundation and the LEGO Foundation · Activities · Families, teachers
Activities that combine digital and hands-on play, for children with teachers or families. Ages 3 and up.
OctoStudio
From the makers of Scratch, MIT Media Lab · Free app · Families, teachers
A free app for making animations and games from photos, sounds and drawings. Ages 7 and up.
Art and Creativity in Reggio Emilia
Vea Vecchi · Book · Teachers
The atelier and the role of the atelierista.
THE WONDER WALK
The city as a place to learn
The Wonder Walk
Educ@demy · Teachers, families
Small groups explore a town centre through a series of stops and prompts, looking closely and following their curiosity, then share what they noticed.
The City Grows Like Us
Rechild, Reggio Children, December 2024 · Free · Everyone
How Reggio Emilia's preschools and infant-toddler centres make children's views of the city visible.
La città cresce come noi: the map
Reggio Children · Free · Everyone
An online map of what the city's young children notice, ask and suggest about where they live.
Maps from My World
Activity sheet, Fondazione Reggio Children · Free PDF · Families, teachers
Children map the places around them.
La Città dei Bambini
Francesco Tonucci's network · Free · Leaders
More than a hundred cities that ask children how their town should work. Italian, Spanish and English.
LOOKING CLOSELY
Seeing and imagining
Visual Thinking Strategies
Housen and Yenawine · Training · Teachers, families
A method for looking at and discussing images together.
A fantastic binomial: Gianni Rodari and Reggio Emilia
Reggio Children · Free · Families, teachers
Gianni Rodari's work with words and stories, and his connection to Reggio Emilia.
Design as Art
Bruno Munari · Book · Everyone
Essays on design and everyday objects.
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · Book · Everyone
A short classic on how we look at images.
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Book · Teachers, families
Why the playful learning of kindergarten should last a lifetime, from the creator of Scratch and OctoStudio.
THE THIRD TEACHER
Spaces that teach
The Beauty of the Unusual
Guiomar Martín Domínguez, Interchange, 2024 · Article · Leaders, teachers
An architect's reading of the Reggio Emilia approach.
The role of the environment
Lella Gandini · Article · Teachers
How a room shapes what children do and how they treat each other.
Space and Learning
Herman Hertzberger · Book · Leaders
A Dutch architect on how the design of a school shapes the learning inside it.
Handbook for Innovative Learning Environments
OECD, 2017 · Free PDF · Leaders
Principles and tools for leaders redesigning how and where learning happens.
Fare Scuola
Fondazione Reggio Children with Enel Cuore · Project · Leaders, teachers
A programme redesigning learning spaces in Italian state schools.
GOING DEEPER
Ideas behind the week
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · Book · Everyone
On reciprocity between people and the living world.
The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED · Free talk · Everyone
On how single narratives shape our understanding of people and places.
The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Elliot Eisner · Book · Teachers, leaders
On what the arts contribute to learning.
How to Kill Creativity
Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business Review · Article · Leaders
On the conditions that support or undermine creativity.
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson, TED · Free talk · Families, leaders
On the place of creativity in schools.