Futurefarmers

Founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini (b. 1970; Patterson, California), Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners aligned through an interest in making work that is relevant to its time and place. The design studio serves as a platform to support art projects and an artist-in-residence program. Its artists, designers, architects, anthropologists, writers, computer programmers, and farmers share a common interest in creating frameworks for exchange that catalyze moments of “not knowing.” Futurefarmers deconstructs systems such as food policies, public transportation, campus design, and rural farming networks to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics. Futurefarmers has published A Variation on Powers of Ten (2012) and For Want of a Nail (2019). The group has exhibited work at the Guggenheim Museum (2010) and the Museum of Modern Art (2006, 2008) in New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2012); the 2000 Whitney Biennial; the Sharjah Biennale 2017; and the Taipei Biennale 2018.