Moleskine Foundation: encouraging critical thinking through creativity, culture and unconventional education

The Moleskine Foundation is a non-profit organization that was created in 2006 as lettera27 – an unconventional cultural incubator. It takes lettera27’s heritage -people, values and projects - and brings it to a wider scale. The Moleskine Foundation embraces the experience of the founders of the Moleskine brand. The Foundation’s purpose is that Creativity and Quality Education are key to producing positive change in society and driving our collective future.

We are committed to providing youth with unconventional educational tools and experiences that help foster critical thinking, creative doing and life-long learning, with a focus on communities affected by cultural and social deprivation.

To achieve this, we work at the intersection of three focus areas: innovative education, art, culture for social transformation, advocacy and cross-cultural sensitization.

Moleskine Foundation approach
​The Foundation gathers and curates a wide variety of content. This might be informative, educational and/or cultural. We take part in research, documentation and communication activities – both independently and in partnership with other organizations. 

The right to education is one of the basic human rights. As part of its mission, the Moleskine Foundation is committed to inspiring and engaging in critical debate with international cultural protagonists from a vast array of fields. We want to contribute to shaping the international debate on quality education, art and culture for social transformation, cross-cultural interaction and other contemporary topics.

We do this by curating and aggregating content online and through organizing seminars, discussions and panels on relevant topics as well as pursuing innovative research projects that challenge conventional approaches. The Moleskine Foundation believes that art is an important lever for knowledge, exploration and experimentation. The creative process is at the core of the international project AtWork, a format conceived to combine education, creativity and critical thinking.