Learning ecologies · democratic citizenship · utopian futures
Mon · Researcher · Futurist · Learning Designer

We create utopian activists.

Learni is a studio working on the semiotics of learning: how spaces, stories and games teach long before anyone speaks.

“Optimistic polymath, lifelong learner, curious about most fields of knowledge, thinking and arts.”

We design learning ecologies so museums, foundations, municipalities and youth collectives can rehearse other ways of living together. The work crosses non‑formal education, democratic citizenship and speculative futures, always starting from concrete bodies in specific places.

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moncho@learni.org · +34 607 414 854 · learni.org
Learning & space design Critical & creative thinking Democratic citizenship Youth participation Utopian activism
Studio practice

What you can commission without losing your soul.

We don’t “deliver workshops”; we co‑design semiotic systems: spaces, programmes and tools where young people and communities can read themselves differently – and act from there.

01 · Learning ecologies
Designing how a place teaches, not just what it offers.
Programmes, labs, residencies and hybrid spaces that turn your institution into a learning ecology: from entrance to exit, every sign, gesture and object participates in the pedagogy.
Museums & cultural centres Youth spaces & ludotecas Hybrid & online infrastructures
02 · Democracy & futures
Games and fictions as rehearsal devices for decisions.
Labs where we use games, speculative fiction and futures thinking to explore democracy, rights and ecosocial transitions with youth and communities – and take insights back to policy tables.
Democratic citizenship Game‑based learning Ecosocial transitions
03 · Project architecture
Designing the invisible scaffolding of long‑term projects.
Concept, methodology, impact logic and governance for projects that need to be more than a report: structures that can hire people, sustain a foundation and hold a living community of practice.
EU & international consortia Impact & competence frameworks Long‑term strategic alliances
Fieldwork

When theory met muddy shoes and fluorescent lights.

Selected situations where learning design, democratic education and futures work had to happen in real rooms: school gyms, youth centres, ministries, train wagons – with all the contradictions present.

Idioms of struggle · 2008–2011
US Students Association Foundation · 2008–2009
Trainer & organiser

GROW programme across 7 state campuses, 1,000+ students. Minimum wage reframed as a question of who is legible as “worth a life” in law. Result: a 270% increase of minimum wage in Kansas.

Delhi University & Vishwa Yuvak Kendra · 2011
Consultant & trainer

Co‑designed Master curricula in Lifelong Learning and a Youth Work certificate for 50 national experts: making youth work visible as a profession, not an afterthought.

Institutions as classrooms · 2011–2015
Haus der Offenen Tür · 2012–2015
Head of International Programmes

International mobility as a language of recognition for young people labelled “at risk”. 150k €/year fundraised and 1,000+ youth empowered through programmes.

End Ecocide in Europe · 2012–2014
Initiative Coordinator

European Citizens’ Initiative reframing severe environmental destruction as ecocide, not a side effect: 820,000 supporters and 250 activists trained in the semiotics of legal language and public campaigning.

Research & toolboxes

Games, frameworks and texts as sign systems.

A selection of games, frameworks and open resources that turn democratic culture, rights and ecosocial transitions into languages that can be learned, hacked and shared.

Games
Democracy through cardboard, dice and situated choice.
DEMOGAMES · Erasmus+ ENGAGE · learning democracy with children Outsider & Perspective · indie board games
Frameworks
Naming competences so they can be cultivated and funded.
Digit.Al · digital transformation in EDC CESCY · circular economy competences RFCDC & TEVIP · Council of Europe
Toolboxes
Resources that keep working when the project ends.
STEPS · survival toolkit for post‑factual societies Competendo · open toolbox for civic education Autism Friendly Spaces · spatial inclusion
Contact & next moves

If you want infrastructure, not a one‑off workshop.

We are especially interested in collaborations that leave behind new institutions, not just new slides: spaces, routines and languages that keep teaching when the project ends.

For institutions & funders
You might be in the right place if…
  • ▸ You want a programme, lab or residency that doesn’t feel like “just another call”.
  • ▸ You care about democratic citizenship, ecosocial transitions and youth agency in practice.
  • ▸ You’re willing to experiment with spaces, games, fiction and new forms of governance.
Get in touch
One email away from a different brief.

Email: moncho@learni.org
Phone: +34 607 414 854
Web: learni.org

Let’s start with a short conversation to listen, map the codes already at work in your context and sketch what a first collaborative prototype could look like – before any deck appears.

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