Amy Franceschini is the founder of Futurefarmers, an international collective of artists, activists, researchers, farmers, and architects who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political, and environmental organization of space. Futurefarmers has created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally. Franceschini is an artist and designer whose work facilitates encounter, exchange, and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the certainties of a given time or place where a work is situated. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between “humans and nature.” Her projects challenge systems of exchange and the tools we use to “hunt and gather.”

Image caption: SOIL KITCHEN, temporary public art project, Philadelphia, 2011 (photo courtesy of Futurefarmers).