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Futurefarmers
499 Alabama Street #114
San Francisco, CA 94110
USA

  • A traditionally constructed boat mast and spar, filled with ancient grains collected and grown by Futurefarmers in Oslo, Norway.
  • Flatbread Society Iaspis, Stockholm
  • Out of Place, In Place
    Exhibition Overview, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  • Extention of Frank Lloyd Wright Bench into a cobbler's bench at the Guggenheim Museum NYC.
  • Flatbread Society
    Testing ovens at IASPIS in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Annual Harvest
    Painting fruit boxes on 50 year old apple farm in Belgium.
  • Flatbread Society Bakehouse
    A permanent public artwork in Oslo Norway.
  • Annual Harvest
    Painting fruit boxes on 50 year old apple farm in Belgium.
  • Futurefarmers archivists, Sight and Sound transcribing 1994-present at YBCA.
  • A windmill-powered printing press inLofoten, Norway. First print run, July 2019 of co-authored title: A Village that Went to the Wind. Come see/hear August 30 in Svolvaer.
  • By sea, by land, by fjord... Bread kneads hands...
  • Further On...
    Further On...
  • Propositions for a Flatbread Society:
    A theatrical property, commonly referred to as a "prop", is an object used on stage by actors to further the story line of a theatrical production. Smaller props are referred to as "hand props". Larger props may also be set decoration, such as a chair or table. The difference between a set decoration and a prop is use. If the item is not touched by a performer, it is simply a set decoration.

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07. 23. 19
Exhibition
The 1000 Ecologies
So excited to return to Utopiana! We will enact Le Voyage des Semences. See their great program!
July 1, 2019
Scenography
As Long as We Are Playing
Very excited to be working with Kabinet K again on a new piece. Inspiration from Claire Simon
05. 15-16. 19
Lecture/Performance
The Re-Enchantment of Nature + The Metamorphic Sublime
We are enchanted to be working with Michael Taussig during a 3-day seminar here in Rome: Join us on Day 2 for The Mastery of Non-Mastery.
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Wind Theater
Wood, Metal, Rubber, Paper, Video
2019
Sirens
Sculpture, Lighting, Scenography
2019
Further On... to Land
Walk, Sculpture
2018
Flatbread Society Bakehouse
Wood, Earth, Seeds
2017
Are You Receiving Me?
Wood, Slow-Scan Television, Print
2017
Seed Journey
Sea-faring
2017
Bruegel Awakens
Sculpture, Performance, Sound
2017
Seed Mast
Wood, Grains, Rope, Print
2015
Annual Harvest
Temporary Public Art
2014
Open Outcry
Sculpture, Performance
2014
Consortium Instabile
Oak, Metal, Radio
2014
For Want of a Nail
Sculpture, Book, Video
2014
Canoe Oven
Sculpture, Performance
2013
A Variation on Rossum's Universal Robots
Performance, props
2013
Ethnobotanical Station
Sculpture, Workshops, Web
2012
Flatbread Society
2012
Flatbread Society, Stockholm
Performance, Flour, Water
2012
A Variation on Powers of Ten
Photography, Website, Book
2012
Land, Use: Blueprint for a New Pastoralism
Sculpture, public programming
2012
Flatbread Society Riga, Latvia
Sculpture, Public Program
2012
Shoemaker's Dialogues
2011
Soil Kitchen
Architecture, Public Art, Workshops
2011
Erratum
Sculpture, Performance, Printmaking, Video
2010
This is Not a Trojan Horse
2010
The Reverse Ark II
2010
The People's Roulette
Wood, electronics, steel
2009
Nearest Nature
Various
2008
Lunchbox Laboratory
Wood, recycled plastic, glass, electronics, algae
2008
Headlands Garden Boat
Wood, dirt, rope, herbs
2008
Urban Garden Registry
2008
The Reverse Ark
Wood, plastic, cardboard, paint, people
2008
Civic Cycle
Bikes and people
2008
Victory Gardens
2007
Rainwater Harvester/Greywater Feedback Loop
Wood, steel, plastic, mint, rubber
2007
Radio Forest
radio, public art
2006
Bingo: Field of Thoughts
String, paper, silkscreen
2006
Shoelace Exchange
String, Weeds, paper, wood, video
2005
F.R.U.I.T.
wood, silkscreen, paper, internet
2005
2003
  • "Who pays the Donkey"
    at Futurefarmers survey exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

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07. 23. 19
Exhibition
The 1000 Ecologies

So excited to return to Utopiana! We will enact Le Voyage des Semences. See their great program!

July 1, 2019
Scenography
As Long as We Are Playing

Very excited to be working with Kabinet K again on a new piece. Inspiration from Claire Simon

05. 15-16. 19
Lecture/Performance
The Re-Enchantment of Nature + The Metamorphic Sublime

We are enchanted to be working with Michael Taussig during a 3-day seminar here in Rome: Join us on Day 2 for The Mastery of Non-Mastery.

04. 18. 19
Workshop
Common Knowledge

Join us for a workshop in collaboration with the Ljubljana Botanical Garden within the context of The 26th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana

August 25, 2019
Exhibition
LIAF

A small village in the north of Norway... salmon fishing no longer, a ferry, a road, 13 children, a headmaster of the school, a swimming pool and the wind coalesce in a new project this August - Wind Theater.

04. 05. 19
Book
For Want of a Nail

So very excited to be releasing our book published by no place press and distributed by MIT Press.

April 5, 2019
Lecture
miart

Join us at miart in Milan between 14-15:00 with fellow panelist's: Maria Thereza Alves and Mel Chin.

02. 13. 19
Fellowship
The Rome Prize

Futurefarmers will be in Rome from February through July at the American Academy in Rome.

01. 09. 19
Book
The Rural

Thank you My Villages for including us in the new Whitechapel: Documents on Contemporary Art: The Rural!

12. 10. 18
Project
Wandering Residency

Futurefarmers installs itself as a Wandering Residency for the first part of a multi-year project with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz.

11. 25. 18
Book
Rurality Re-Imagined

A beautiful new book edited by Ben Stringer. Soil Kitchen is included in a chapter called After Baruchello.

10. 14. 18
Book
Flatbread Society: A commons In the making.

As part of a series from the British Council, Flatbread Society is presented by our favorite, Karolin Tampere.

10. 02. 18
Workshop
University of Ideas

Unravel language, form and inquiry around the production of wool.

10. 02. 18
Book
Exploring Commonism

Thank you Nico Dockx and Pascal Gielen for inviting us to contriubte to Commonism: A New Aesthetics Of The Real.

09. 06. 18
Project
Masking Migratory

We are excited to be hosted by Tenthaus Oslo as we collaborate with Alexander Slotten on a suite of New Agrarian masks for our upcoming, Further On... to Land program in Oslo.

09. 14-23. 18
Action
Through the Tandoor & Further On... to Land

Join us for new realms of activation of the bakehouse and a movement across land with baker Emmanuel Rang.

July 19, 2018
Public/Performance/Research
Electromagic

Let us welcome, bolwerK

April - August, 2018
Exhibition
Out of Place, in Place

Futurefarmers survey exhibition. Many public programs. Come by!

05. 23. 18
Exhibition
Eco-Visionaries

Thank you Bildmuseet for including us in this exhibition of great works.

02. 08. 18
Exhibition
You Had to Be There

Thank you Elizabeth Thomas and CCA Curatorial Practice students for organizing this show!

January 27, 2018
Exhibition
Designed in California

Amy Franceschini and Fernando Garcia-Dory re-present Land Use with new permutations!

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Futurefarmers zoom in on "assembly" by asking:
"Who is part of our assemblage?
Who is the other that co-determines or co-constitutes what is of importance?
What provokes this pre-subjective process of communization?"

With projects such as Flatbread Society, the Futurefarmers collective focuses on concrete practice. They conduct hands-on exploration of how people and things, neighbors and grains effect each other...

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Nico Dockx + Pascal Gielen
About
Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in making work that is relevant to the time and place surrounding us. Founded in 1995, the design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residence program and our research interests. We are artists, designers, architects, scientists and farmers with a common interest in creating frameworks for exchange that catalyze moments of "not knowing".

While we collaborate with scientists and are interested in scientific inquiry, we want to ask questions more openly. Through participatory projects, we create spaces and experiences where the logic of a situation disappears - encounters occur that broaden, rather than narrow perspectives, i.e. reductionist science.

We use various media to create work that has the potential to destabilize logics of "certainty". We deconstruct systems such as food policies, public transportation and rural farming networks to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics. Through this disassembly new narratives emerge that reconfigure the principles that once dominated these systems. Our work often provides a playful entry point and tools for participants to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry- not only to imagine, but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.

Futurefarmers work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim, MAXXI in Rome, Italy, New York Hall of Sciences and the Walker Art Center.
People

Amy Franceschini

San Francisco, USA

Amy Franceschini is an artist and designer who creates work that 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 reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to "hunt" and "gather". Using this as a starting point, she provides new tools for an audience to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry; not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.

In 1995, Amy founded 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. Founded in 1995, their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residence program and their research interests. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics; food systems, public transportation, education. Through this disassembly they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. They have created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally.

Amy received her BFA from San Francisco State University in Photography and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in the visual arts graduate programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Stanford University. Amy is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow and has received grants from the Cultural Innovation Fund, Creative Work Fund and the Graham Foundation.

Michael Swaine

Seattle, USA

Michael Swaine was originally trained as a ceramicist, but he works in a variety of materials, methods, and media and has had a long-time focus on collaborative work. Michael has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 1997. Michael's Free Mending Library Project involved him pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine on it through the streets of San Francisco. This project became an on-going, monthly happening that took place in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco from 2002-2015. Michael received his B.F.A. from Alfred University in Ceramics and his M.A. in Design from UC Berkeley. Michael is an assistant professor in the 3D4M at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Stijn Schiffeleers

Working in many media Stijn reveals the subtleties of life via film, video and interactive installations. His work embodies a sense of play and sensitivity that reminds us to take a closer look at what surrounds us. He has been seen soaring above the streets of San Francisco in a canoe mounted to the top of the Futurefarmers Volvo and most recently in Gent, Belgium. Stijn has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 2003.

Lode Vranken

Lode Vranken has been practicing architecture internationally since 1993 when he received his masters in a UN Course on Human Settlements + Architectural Philosophy from the KU Leuven, Belgium. He has been teaching since 2005 as a Ned delegate at The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain and from 1993-94 at the Asian Institute for Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Lode co-founded the architectural research coalition, De Bouwerij in Belgium that focuses on social living structures and passive houses, Cradle 2 Cradle buildings and zero
energy construction. He is also a partner of Dear Pigs in Belgium and member of the The Ghent School for Metaphysics and has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 2010.

Anya Kamenskaya

Anya Kamenskaya is an ag-centric organizer and green building apprentice. Since 2009, she has curated educational events, film screenings and social mixers for the advocacy non-profit, the Greenhorns. She is a member of DIG Cooperative, Inc., a design-build firm focused on decentralized urban water infrastructure. At Futurefarmers she manages the Indigenous Farming Project, a tribal food sovereignty initiative in California's Owens Valley. She received her B.S. in Agroecology from UC Berkeley.

Dan Allende

Daniel is an artist, builder and inventor. He has spent many summers orienteering by canoe in Canada where he has gone several months at a time without seeing other humans. Dan received his B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art and is working towards his M.F.A. (2015) at Carnegie Mellon. Dan collaborated with Futurefarmers on the Reverse Ark at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009, the People's Roulette for the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, 2009 and Soil Kitchen, 2011, a temporary public artwork commissioned by the city of Philadelphia.

Futurefarmers Writers Fellowship

Cooley Windsor

Cooley Windsor is the Futurefarmers eternal writer in residence and has graced us with his presence and work since 2009. Many of our projects have emerged from the writings of Cooley Windsor; The Reverse Ark I, The Reverse Ark 2 and This is Not a Trojan Horse. Cooley's seminal work, Visit Me in California has left an everlasting impact on us. Cooley teaches in the MFA Program at the California College of the Arts, and is co-director of the annual Meant to Be Seen Festival at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco. He was one of the founding board members of Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, an environmental-justice organization focused on the southeast section of San Francisco. He is affiliated with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.

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Through the physical transformation of the pit, people can re-define and occupy this space that is usually out of reach. (behind the doors of the Chicago Board of Trade)\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\nInside the Grain Pit bottles of ancient grains are displayed. In light of recent free-trade agreements between the European Union, the United States, Canada, and many South American countries, the practice of cultivating and saving seeds has taken center stage. In many countries this practice has become endangered, and in some areas it is now illegal. A small collection of grains here carry with them stories of brave and curious individuals who maintained and reestablished these landrace* seeds. Some were once thought to be extinct, while others helped families to subsist in extreme environments. Rather than being selectively bred to conform to certain standards and stored away in seed banks, landrace varieties evolve by adapting to a variety of environmental situations and to the agricultural practices used by the people growing them. Flatbread Society continues to collect and share these seeds, from one hand to the next.\r\n\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\nThe term \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdopen outcry\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd describes a method of communication between professionals on a board of trade. It involves both shouting and the use of specific hand signals to communicate buying and selling on the trading floor, also known as, the pit. Flatbread Society at the Broad MSU appropriated this term as the name for its public programming in an effort to evoke a series of spirited dialogues from different viewpoints on the nature of farming and agriculture, our changing relationship to grains, and the commodity of natural resources.\r\n\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\nFlatbread Society, with help from MSU students and Assistant Professor of Ceramics Paul Kotula, built a clay tandoor oven in the Broad MSU\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds Sculpture Garden. This oven was used in a bread making workshop and during a discussion titled Material Encounters: What We Make. The oven will move from the campus to Food Fields, an urban farm in Detroit, where it will live permanently. \r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\n*The term \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdlandrace\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd represents a classification of crops and farming methods widely present before industrialization, in which farmers did not grow a single variety of wheat in just one field. 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","tn_url":"tn\/1418797412.jpg","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1418797283.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"Abruzzo, Italy","image_upload_id":"15","search_terms":"Treehouse, Abruzzo, Radio, Farm, Sculpture, Architecture"},{"id":"84","main_type":"project","category":"1","title":"For Want of a Nail","client":"","media":"Sculpture, Book, Video","date":"2014-06-01","url":"forginganail","external_url":"forging","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine","dimensions":"","description":"Forging a Nail engages New Mexico's complex nuclear history as it relates to land use, resource extraction and the breadth of decisions that were made within the Manhattan Project. Two inter-office memoranda found at the Los Alamos Historical Museum guide the process and form. Sent from Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's (lead physicist of the Manhattan Project) office in 1943 these memoranda describe a table for his office and a nail to hang his hat. The persistence and specificity of a request for a nail for Mr. Oppenheimer's hat (mentioned in both memorandum) inspired Futurefarmers to hesitate in this peculiar moment - to make, by hand, this nail. <br\/><br\/>By forging, casting and fusing a range of materials a series of three nails emerged. The choice of materials used to make these nails mines the history of tool making from the pre-historic use of meteorites as tools to the material by-products of such events as the testing of the atomic bomb. The process began by procuring a Meteorite found in Canyon Diablo, Arizona. Using fire and force, the first nail was forged- one of a kind. A second nail was made through a process of casting 1943 steel pennies. These pennies also known as \"war pennies\" were made of only steel, as the copper was needed for ammunition. These pennies were melted and poured into a graphite mold alluding to notions of mass production and the multiple. A third nail was made by re-fusing Trinitite, a material that was formed by the heat from the atomic bomb test whereby sand was drawn up inside the fireball itself and then rained down in a liquid form and resulted as a glassy residue left on the desert floor. Everything that grew on the earth's surface from this point forward was inscribed with what scientists call the isotopic fingerprint - a permanent record of this event. These three nails provide an arc of inquiry into moments when humans have eclipsed their knowledge and power.","tn_url":"tn\/1414709702.jpg","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1414698507.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"6","search_terms":""},{"id":"102","main_type":"project","category":"1","title":"Canoe Oven","client":"","media":"Sculpture, Performance ","date":"2013-06-20","url":"canoeoven","external_url":"","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Stijn Schiffeleers, Lode Vranken, Marthe Van Dessel","dimensions":"17' x 3' x 6' ","description":"A wood fired- oven roosting in a canoe, able to float upon the fjord and wander upon land as a beacon and center for questioning about the context for our permanent, public artwork, Flatbread Society. 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At first they seem happy to work for humans, although that changes, and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race. \r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\nIn Czech, \"robota\" means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands, and is derived from rab, meaning \"slave.\"\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\n*This play introduced the word \"robot\" to the English language. ","tn_url":"tn\/1374176646.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1374176457.png","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"24","search_terms":""},{"id":"66","main_type":"project","category":"2","title":"Ethnobotanical Station","client":"","media":"Sculpture, Workshops, Web","date":"2012-12-16","url":"ethnobotanical","external_url":"http:\/\/futurefarmers.com\/ebotanical","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic","dimensions":"","description":"A mobile module that draws upon a diverse lineage of knowledge to study the complex relations between plants and humans. 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Periodic assemblies marked points of research, aligned interests and skills that are put to use in Bakehouse Bj\u00c3\u00b8rvika. Using prototyping as a practice, this particular instance of FBS (while in residence at IASPIS in Stockholm, Sweden) experimented with fire, mobility and flatbread recipes. ","tn_url":"tn\/1351704823.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1351704834.png","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"16","search_terms":""},{"id":"64","main_type":"project","category":"2","title":"Land, Use: Blueprint for a New Pastoralism","client":"","media":"Sculpture, public programming","date":"2012-00-00","url":"brower","external_url":"http:\/\/www.fernandogarciadory.info\/index.php?\/projects\/landuse---blueprint\/","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Fernando Garc\u00eda-Dory","dimensions":"","description":"Blueprint for a New Pastoralism was one piece in a larger installation, \"Land, Use\", that looked at the disappearance of the tradition of nomadic pastoralism as it relates to land development, strategies of environmental activism and stark differences in values around land use. <br\/><br\/>\r\nThis multi-part collaborative work commissioned by the David Brower Center, used the frame and organizing principles of the Center to question how ideas of preservation of land and knowledge are addressed within this contemporary hub that houses over 200 activists and non-profit organizations whose work is related to land use, preservation and policymaking. <br\/><br\/>\r\nBlueprint for a New Pastoralism consisted of a modular gathering space, a participatory event and ephemera from a facilitated discussion about land use. A blueprint of a shepherd\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds wagon is drawn onto a large canvas, providing the focal point for this constellation of objects and activities. This flat plane transforms into a makeshift roof, paying homage to nomadic pastoralists who directly manage land and other resources to create productive communities. Below the roof, a wooden sculpture folds out to create a table and benches. When the roof is up and the sitting area is established, this temporary shelter offers a meeting space for discussion and convivial activities- allowing the narrative of the shepherd to unfold and reactivate it in our present day.\r\n","tn_url":"tn\/1353056487.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1353056502.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":null,"image_upload_id":"27","search_terms":null},{"id":"65","main_type":"project","category":"2","title":"Flatbread Society Riga, Latvia","client":"","media":"Sculpture, Public Program","date":"2012-00-00","url":"riga","external_url":"http:\/\/www.flatbreadsociety.net\/","artists":"Amy Franceschini\r\nStijn Schiffeleers","dimensions":"","description":"During a discussion on \"Slow Living\" at the Survival Kit Festival in Riga, Latvia, we provided a fire and flatbread. Topics ranged from Thoreau's Walden, Unibomber Manifesto to farming as a form.\r\n\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\nParticipants: Sassa Jorgensen (NO) & Geir Tore Holm (NO), Futurefarmers (US), Kobe Matthys (BE), Ansis Liepa, Valdis Abols, Jana Strogonova and Agnese Kalninas.","tn_url":"tn\/1353356475.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1353356485.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":null,"image_upload_id":"31","search_terms":null},{"id":"61","main_type":"project","category":"2","title":"Flatbread Society, Stockholm","client":"","media":"Performance, Flour, Water","date":"2012-00-00","url":"fbstockholm","external_url":"","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Marthe Van Dessel, Stijn Schiffeleers","dimensions":"","description":"An informal workshop at IASPIS studio in Stockholm. A handful of dough was distributed to each visitor. The group was asked to collectively create the solar system by orienting everyone to the sun (a bicycle wheel, covered with yellow paper hanging in the studio). 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The camera then zooms back to the picnic, into the man's hand, until it arrives at quarks - the edge of our current understanding- at 10 to the -15. Looking back at the film, we became entranced by the presence of the narrator, Philip Morrison, the production of the film and the very short time spent at the human scale. A Variation on Powers of Ten, uses the opening picnic scene as score to guide 10 discussions. Like the stage of a microscope, the blanket became a stage where the act of inventorying and recording is the content of the work. Books, journals, food and a location were recast and became cues pointing back to the film and forward to each researcher's own work.","tn_url":"tn\/1353016479.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1353016488.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"28","search_terms":""},{"id":"56","main_type":"project","category":"1","title":"Shoemaker's Dialogues","client":"","media":"","date":"2011-05-29","url":"shoemaker","external_url":"http:\/\/www.futurefarmers.com\/footnotes\/","artists":"Amy Franceschini\r\nMichael Swaine","dimensions":"","description":"Extending the architecture and function of the existing seating within the Frank \r\nLloyd Wright- designed museum, a Cobbler's Bench and Shoemaker's Atelier \r\nwas created to form the nucleus of a series of events questioning the relation \r\nship between the sole and the soul. The atelier is an open interpretation of \r\nSimon the Shoemaker's Fifth-century Athens Studio in which Socrates alleg- \r\nedly had extensive philosophical discussions with Simon and local youth. \r\nThe Pedestrian Press is a set of shoes that make up an entire character set. Each \r\nshoe has a letter on the toe and a stamp pad embedded in the heel. A roll of \r\npaper is rolled out onto the streets of the city and a parade of 22 people wearing the shoes is choreographed by a series of texts read aloud. A special ink made \r\nfrom particulate matter, \"soot\" is used to print the letters. For the occasion of \r\nthe Intervals exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Pedestrian Press made three outings to the New Museum Festival of Ideas, Soul Kitchen in Harlem and a wander around the perimeter of the Guggenheim Museum.","tn_url":"tn\/1351704324.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1351704362.png","load_external_url":"1","status":"0","location":null,"image_upload_id":"26","search_terms":null},{"id":"47","main_type":"project","category":"2","title":"Soil Kitchen","client":"","media":"Architecture, Public Art, Workshops","date":"2011-04-06","url":"soilkitchen","external_url":"http:\/\/www.futurefarmers.com\/soilkitchen","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Dan Allende, Lode Vranken, Ian cox","dimensions":"variable","description":"A temporary public art project that coincided with the Environmental Protection Agency's National Brownfield conference and the city of Philadelphia's 2015 Green initiative. A windmill-powered architectural intervention, Soil Kitchen rehabilitated an abandoned building into a multi-use space where citizens enjoyed free soup in exchange for soil samples from their neighborhood. Placed across the street from the Don Quixote monument in Philadelphia, the windmill payed homage to Cervantes' notable scene of Don Quixote tilting the windmills. Rather than being \"adversarial giants\" as they were in the novel, the windmill at Soil Kitchen was a functioning symbol of self-reliance and literally breathed new life into a formerly abandoned building within a post-industrial landscape. Through a combination of structured workshops and playful formats of debate, Philadelphia residents gathered to imagine a potential green future and participated in the material exchange of soil for soup - literally taking matters into one's own hands.\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\n\r\nSoil Kitchen tested over 350 soil samples and served 300 bowls of soup per day made from locally sourced vegetables grown on a former\r\nbrownfield. In addition to serving soup and testing soil a Philadelphia Brownfield Map and Soil Archive was produced and the building was a hub for exchange and learning; free workshops including wind turbine construction, urban agriculture, soil remediation, composting, lectures by soil scientists and cooking lessons.","tn_url":"tn\/1352394468.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1352394461.png","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"30","search_terms":""},{"id":"36","main_type":"project","category":"1","title":"The Reverse Ark II","client":"","media":"","date":"2010-00-00","url":"reverseark2","external_url":"http:\/\/www.futurefarmers.com\/reverseark2\/","artists":"Amy Franceschini, Stijn Schiffeleers, Michael Swaine, Dan Allende, Ian Cox","dimensions":"","description":"A temporary school built with Baltimore-specific, reclaimed materials; floorboards from abandoned row houses, fallen trees, surplus paper rolls from the Baltimore Sun and surplus fabric from the textile industry. Content for the school was informed by the political, social and economic history of the materials. \r\n\r\nGiant oars made from salvaged floorboards of (abandoned) row houses penetrated the walls of the museum- blades inside the museum and handles out onto the street. The museum became a vessel, an ark with a sail that doubled as a massive loom inviting visitors to become weavers. A Pedestrian Press enabled daily printing by foot. An entire tree was turned into an alphabet. Each letter to be worn as a shoe. Collectively, a printing march would roll out daily news. \r\n\r\nThe gallery was handed over to Baltimore; students, community groups and passerby who created weekly public programs for 3 months ranging from a time capsule workshop, clean water walk, mapping workshop, tent-building workshop, reading circles, film screenings and more. 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Indoor plumbing and waste processing systems are targeted as objects of scrutiny and allegory in addressing the effects of waste on our ecology. Configured as a vessel for new ideas, self-reliance, and regeneration, ERRATUM is offered up as a \"reverse ready-made:\".\r\n<br\/><br\/>\r\n\r\nBook is available for sale at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfcb.org\/imprint\/erratum-brief-interruptions-waste-stream\">San Francisco Center for the Book<\/a>.\r\n","tn_url":"tn\/1352055276.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1352055284.png","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"34","search_terms":""},{"id":"39","main_type":"project","category":"2","title":"The People's Roulette","client":"","media":"Wood, electronics, steel","date":"2009-00-00","url":"humanroulette","external_url":"","artists":"Amy Franceschini\r\nDan Allende","dimensions":"30' x 30' x 5'","description":"A temporary, public sculpture located in the Nashan District of Shenzhen, China. The inspiration for the piece began with an image of the 1950's Human Roulette at Coney Island, New York. \r\n<br><br>\r\n\r\nIn looking at the economic reforms in China that led to a market-oriented mixed economy after the death of Mao Zedong, one of the outcomes \r\nwas the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ's). The SEZ was formed to be an experimental ground for the practice of market capitalism within a community guided by the ideals of \"socialism with Chinese characteristics\". Rising from a small fishing village to a city of 10 million, Shenzhen has become an economic powerhouse and the largest manufacturing base in the world. It is also home to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as well as home to many mulit-national corporations. \r\n<br><br>\r\nFor the occasion of the Shenzhen, Hong Kong Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, The People's Roulette was erected. An over-sized roulette structure mirrors the literal aspect of Shenzhen as a sub-provincial or prefecture city as well as the physical layout of the city that is surrounded by the world renowned factory area. Passengers are invited to sit upon the center piece while an operator controls an increasing rate of rotation. 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Stefan guided participants in identification of the plants according to a weaving of Linnaean taxonomy, local dialect and english names for each plant. <br><br>\r\n\r\n<b>Day 2: On Becoming Flora <\/b><br> \r\nParticipants developed a human character based on the plants characteristics. The group drifted through the city with the aim of identifying their imagined characters. If the described character could not be found, the participants\r\nwent to the thrift store and dressed up and enacted a theater of mimicry - performatively describing their companion species. <br><br>\r\n\r\n<b>Day 3: Building a city <\/b><br> \r\nA small-scale city design guided by the community of plants studied on Day 1. Various relational situations between the plants and their surrounding study plot were revealed and informed how a city might function in terms of distribution of energy, placement and cycles. <br><br>","tn_url":"tn\/1352743493.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1352743509.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"37","search_terms":""},{"id":"1","main_type":"project","category":"1","title":"Lunchbox Laboratory","client":"a client","media":"Wood, recycled plastic, glass, electronics, algae\r\n\r\n","date":"2008-02-27","url":"lunchboxlaboratory","external_url":"","artists":"Amy Franceschini <br>\r\nJonathan Meuser <br>\r\nMichael Swaine <br>\r\nNoah Murphy-Reinhertz<br>\r\nStijn Schiffeleers\r\n","dimensions":"variable","description":"Lunchbox Laboratory is a collaboration with the Biological Sciences Team at the National Renewable Energy Lab. Currently scientists are using algae to produce hydrogen and have discovered that it is a viable renewable energy form, in thatalgae is everywhere and it could also be used to produce biodeisel. One of the main hurdles for the research is to find the most productive strains of algae. Since there are potentially millions of strains, this task is monumental.\r\n\r\nLunchbox Laboratory is a prototype for a potentially distributed research tool that would be sent to schools such that young scientists could do primary screening of a collection of algae strains. This would serve as a preliminary screening such that non productive strains would be ruled out and only productive strains would reach labs. This project enables students to participate in big science as well as network with other students nationwide to compare notes.\r\n\r\n\r\n","tn_url":"tn\/1352796014.jpg","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1352795952.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"","image_upload_id":"46","search_terms":""},{"id":"13","main_type":"project","category":"1","title":"The Reverse Ark","client":"","media":"Wood, plastic, cardboard, paint, people","date":"2008-00-00","url":"reverseark","external_url":"http:\/\/futurefarmers.com\/reverseark\/","artists":"Amy Franceschini <br>\r\nMichael Swaine<br>\r\nStijn Schiffeleers<br>","dimensions":"Variable","description":"An inventory of materials reclaimed from the campus, were used during a four-day residency to build \"the Reverse Ark\". The gallery became a living laboratory for learning, inquiry and improvisation including mini-workshops, lectures, video screenings and frameworks for reflection. 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Civic Cycle includes a temporary bike share program, a public bike pump and a public forum to present existing city bike share programs as well as an open discussion to gather input on what San Francisco's city bike program might look and operate like.\r\n\r\n","tn_url":"tn\/1352796882.png","tn_url_alt":"tn\/alt\/1352796887.jpg","load_external_url":"0","status":"0","location":"San Francisco, California","image_upload_id":"38","search_terms":""},{"id":"38","main_type":"project","category":"7","title":"Urban Garden Registry","client":"Victory Gardens 2009+","media":"","date":"2008-00-00","url":"gardenregistry2","external_url":"http:\/\/gardenregistry.org\/","artists":"Amy Franceschini, David Lu, Myriel Milicevic","dimensions":"","description":"Online map of urban agriculture; gardens, possible food production zones, and surplus food. 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Founded in 1995, their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residence program and their research interests. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics; food systems, public transportation, education. Through this disassembly they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. They have created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally. <br\/><br\/>\nAmy received her BFA from San Francisco State University in Photography and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in the visual arts graduate programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Stanford University. Amy is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow and has received grants from the Cultural Innovation Fund, Creative Work Fund and the Graham Foundation.","category":"","list_order":"1","active":"1","bio_type":"0","location":"San Francisco, USA"},{"id":"2","name":"Michael Swaine","bio":"Michael Swaine was originally trained as a ceramicist, but he works in a variety of materials, methods, and media and has had a long-time focus on collaborative work. Michael has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 1997. Michael's Free Mending Library Project involved him pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine on it through the streets of San Francisco. This project became an on-going, monthly happening that took place in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco from 2002-2015. Michael received his B.F.A. from Alfred University in Ceramics and his M.A. in Design from UC Berkeley. 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He has been teaching since 2005 as a Ned delegate at The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain and from 1993-94 at the Asian Institute for Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Lode co-founded the architectural research coalition, De Bouwerij in Belgium that focuses on social living structures and passive houses, Cradle 2 Cradle buildings and zero\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8energy construction. He is also a partner of Dear Pigs in Belgium and member of the The Ghent School for Metaphysics and has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 2010.","category":"","list_order":"4","active":"1","bio_type":"0","location":null},{"id":"11","name":"Anya Kamenskaya","bio":"Anya Kamenskaya is an ag-centric organizer and green building apprentice. Since 2009, she has curated educational events, film screenings and social mixers for the advocacy non-profit, the Greenhorns. She is a member of DIG Cooperative, Inc., a design-build firm focused on decentralized urban water infrastructure. At Futurefarmers she manages the Indigenous Farming Project, a tribal food sovereignty initiative in California's Owens Valley. She received her B.S. in Agroecology from UC Berkeley.","category":"","list_order":"5","active":"1","bio_type":"0","location":null},{"id":"5","name":"Dan Allende","bio":"Daniel is an artist, builder and inventor. He has spent many summers orienteering by canoe in Canada where he has gone several months at a time without seeing other humans. Dan received his B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art and is working towards his M.F.A. (2015) at Carnegie Mellon. Dan collaborated with Futurefarmers on the Reverse Ark at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009, the People's Roulette for the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\\Architecture, 2009 and Soil Kitchen, 2011, a temporary public artwork commissioned by the city of Philadelphia.","category":"","list_order":"6","active":"1","bio_type":"0","location":null},{"id":"6","name":"Cooley Windsor","bio":"Cooley Windsor is the Futurefarmers eternal writer in residence and has graced us with his presence and work since 2009. Many of our projects have emerged from the writings of Cooley Windsor; The Reverse Ark I, The Reverse Ark 2 and This is Not a Trojan Horse. \r\n\r\nCooley's seminal work, Visit Me in California has left an everlasting impact on us. Cooley teaches in the MFA Program at the California College of the Arts, and is co-director of the annual Meant to Be Seen Festival at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco. 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