reDiscover develops children’s creativity through hands-on making with sustainable materials.. We recycle everyday discards donated by business and give them new purpose as hands-on learning materials. We give children the freedom to turn their own ideas into real objects using real power tools.
reDiscover is a community art center, reuse warehouse, and kids makerspace.
Results: Served over 35,000 students. Received Seed Award from South Bay Business Environmental Coalition, 2009; Sustainable Quality Award, City of Santa Monica, 2007. "Looking at Our World" program partnership with Children's Nature Institute., 2010.
Target demographics: reDiscover develops children’s creativity through hands-on making with sustainable materials.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 10,500 children and 3,600 adults
Geographic areas served: Los Angeles County
Programs: Daily drop-in art and tinkering activities, camps, school workshops, teacher professional development, and community festival activities
This is an awesome place; great for spending some time rain or shine to explore one's imagination and create! I bring my kids every now and then and we build cool stuff. They love and I love it. Working with found objects - trash to some, perhaps, but wonderful raw materials to build with and explore. Great for all ages, from simply doing simple crafts to learning about different properties for different materials and solving engineering challenges for older kids.
I love the very existence and mission of ReDiscover. They marry recycling industrial materials with creative art curricula for school children in a truly win/win scenario. There is so much ReDiscover can do if they had more volunteers spearheading initiatives, projects, and outreach. They are a valuable community resource and it would be great if more schools, creative programs, teachers, and artists knew about them. They are an asset to Los Angeles.
