Helping people think, learn and design differently

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What we do

We design education and learning experiences, for organisations, educators and individuals.

So that what people learn in your workshops, courses and spaces is what you set out to teach.

Services

Consultancy

A learning review: we look at what you already run, show you what it teaches, and help you change what you want to change.
How it works
1. A one hour conversation about what you run.
2. We study it, and check what is assumed against what really happens.
3. You get a clear written review, with evidence and questions.
4. We talk it through together, and plan what to change.
Learning Lab

Workshops, retreats and courses, designed and run by us. Hands-on, practical, and built on our research.
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Tools and objects

Games, materials and kits that carry the learning inside them, so it keeps happening when we are not in the room.
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Featured project

Tierra Sustina

A learning platform that takes recycling and the circular economy from the classroom into the home.

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Who we work with

Organisations and public bodies

Councils, schools, training centres and EU project partners who want learning that truly works for the people it serves.
Consultancy
Practitioners

Designers and educators who want to see what their work teaches, design it more consciously, and get ahead with emerging, future-facing design and learning methods.
Learning Lab
Individuals and entrepreneurs

People starting something new who want a clear picture of where they are, and where to go next.
Map Your Next Move

What you gain

See for organisations

Discover what your work is really teaching, and what it could teach.
Explore for practitioners

Experiment, hands-on, with emerging design and learning methods.
Grow for individuals

Build skills that move your work, and your ideas, forward.
Act for everyone

Turn insight into a clear plan you can start on tomorrow.

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Daniella presenting next to a slide about her journey from designer to educator

Daniella talking to a seated audience at Nomad Summit

In action

Presenting at the Aulas de Emprendimiento Demo Day, Alicante 2026, and at Nomad Summit 2025.

Daniella Zlotogoura smiling, holding a mug

Who is behind it

Frónesis Futures Lab was founded in 2026 by Daniella Zlotogoura: designer, educator and researcher, and the mind behind object-led learning.

20+ years of design and teaching
Goldsmiths, University of London: MA in Design Education, then teaching postgraduates
European projects on participatory learning, and EU funding proposals
Design studios and an academy co-founded and run in Alicante

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Our approach

We design the world, and the world designs us back.

That idea, called ontological design, drives everything we do. We start from people, not problems: nothing in our work is about failing, it is about seeing clearly what your design is teaching. And we keep testing one simple idea in practice: objects teach, and the people who use them learn, often without realising it.