This is not a Trojan Horse:
is a project created by Futurefarmers:
Amy Franceschini, Stijn Schiffeleers + Lode Vranken
in collaboration and with Pollinaria.
Futurefarmers
Futurefarmers is a group of artists, designers and architects who use various media to create work that responds to the time and place around them. A constant throughout their work is a concern and critique of systems of capital and their effects on the material and social environment. They deconstruct food policies, public transportation, rural farming networks to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics. Often through this disassembly they find new narratives and potential reconfigurations that might propose alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. Their work often provides a playful entry point and tools for an audience 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 was founded in 1995 as a design studio that serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residence program and research interests. Collectively, they teach in the graduate program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and the joint masters program of art and engineering at Stanford University.
Lode Vranken, Architect/Collaborator
Lode Vranken has been practicing architecture internationally since 1993. IN 1993, he received his masters in a UN Course on Human Settlements + Architectural Philosphy. 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 Technolgy in Bangkok, Thailand. He is a partner in Palladio studio in Belgium. Palladio is know for their zero energy housing and social creative process. Lode co-founded a research coalition, De Bouwerij Architect, that focuses on social living structures for passive houses, Cradle 2 Cradle buildings and zero energy construction. His research is focused on new concepts for small, self-sufficient living units; folding buildings, kinetic structures, rolling shelters all with zero carbon dioxide emission.
Gaetano Carboni, Founder, Pollinaria-Commissioner of Project
www.pollinaria.org
Member of Res Artis - worldwide network of artist residencies – Pollinaria is an organic farm and artist residence operating in the rural context of Abruzzo, Italy. Pollinaria offers its spaces and support to projects proposed by creative thinkers in the arts and sciences, fostering cultural progress and innovation in their region and beyond.
Daniela d'Arielli, Digital, Color Photographer
Caroline Vincart, Digital Photography
Giorgio Liddo, Black and White Film Photographer
Andrea Straccini, Videographer
Berardo Carboni, Director
Armidoro Perrotti a.k.a. "Golden Weapons:
Farm support, tractor, general excitement!
Manuela Perrotti
Chef, dance teacher and production assistant.
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Special Thanks:
Hela Bonaći, Caroline Vincart, Severine Von Tscharner Fleming, and Alice Lizza.
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