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2023
A Meander
Public Projects
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2023
Life Lines
Public Projects
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2022
The Untold River
Sculpture
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2022
S(tree)twork: Intra-Galactic Forest
Public Projects
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2022
Soil Horizons
Performance
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2019
Wind Theater
Public Projects
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2019
Sirens
Performance
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2019
Fog Inquiry
Sculpture
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2018
Further On... to Land
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2018
Out of Place, In Place
Sculpture
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2017
Flatbread Society Bakehouse
Architecture
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2017
Are You Receiving Me?
Sculpture
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2017
Seed Journey
Public Projects
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2017
Bruegel Awakens
Public Projects
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2015
Soil Procession
Public Projects
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2015
Seed Mast
Sculpture
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2014
Annual Harvest
Public Projects
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2014
Open Outcry
Exhibition
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2014
Consortium Instabile
Sculpture
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2014
For Want of a Nail
Sculpture
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2013
Canoe Oven
Sculpture
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2013
A Variation on Rossum's Universal Robots
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2012
Ethnobotanical Station
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2012
Flatbread Society
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2012
A Variation on Powers of Ten
Public Projects
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2012
Land, Use: Blueprint for a New Pastoralism
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2012
Flatbread Society, Stockholm
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2012
Flatbread Society Riga, Latvia
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2011
Shoemaker's Dialogues
Sculpture
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2011
Soil Kitchen
Public Projects
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2010
Beneath the Pavement: A Garden
Public Projects
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2010
The Reverse Ark II
Sculpture
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2010
This is Not a Trojan Horse
Public Projects
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2010
Erratum
Sculpture
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2009
The People's Roulette
Public Projects
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2008
Nearest Nature
Sculpture
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2008
Lunchbox Laboratory
Sculpture
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2008
Headlands Garden Boat
Sculpture
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2008
The Reverse Ark
Sculpture
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2008
Urban Garden Registry
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2008
Civic Cycle
Public Projects
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2007
Rainwater Harvester/Greywater Feedback Loop
Sculpture
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2007
Victory Gardens
Public Projects
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2006
Bingo: Field of Thoughts
Public Projects
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2006
Radio Forest
Public Projects
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2005
Shoelace Exchange
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2005
F.R.U.I.T.
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2003
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The Untold River
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Fog Inquiry
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Out of Place, In Place
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Are You Receiving Me?
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Seed Mast
Sculpture
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Consortium Instabile
Sculpture
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For Want of a Nail
Sculpture
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Canoe Oven
Sculpture
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Shoemaker's Dialogues
Sculpture
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The Reverse Ark II
Sculpture
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Erratum
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Nearest Nature
Sculpture
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Lunchbox Laboratory
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Headlands Garden Boat
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The Reverse Ark
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Rainwater Harvester/Greywater Feedback Loop
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Life Lines
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A Meander
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S(tree)twork: Intra-Galactic Forest
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Wind Theater
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Further On... to Land
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Seed Journey
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Bruegel Awakens
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Soil Procession
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Annual Harvest
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Ethnobotanical Station
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Flatbread Society
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A Variation on Powers of Ten
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Flatbread Society Riga, Latvia
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Flatbread Society, Stockholm
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Land, Use: Blueprint for a New Pastoralism
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Soil Kitchen
Public Projects
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Beneath the Pavement: A Garden
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This is Not a Trojan Horse
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The People's Roulette
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Civic Cycle
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Victory Gardens
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Radio Forest
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Bingo: Field of Thoughts
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Shoelace Exchange
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F.R.U.I.T.
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Urban Garden Registry
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Soil Horizons
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Sirens
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A Variation on Rossum's Universal Robots
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Open Outcry
Exhibition
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Flatbread Society Bakehouse
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Join In the Belly... in Brussels to weave together people and projects engaged in conscious mobility policies which contribute to the pursuit of a CO2 neutral society.
She floats! She delivers! She is carried by the voices of the farmers, the millers, the bakers, the brewers, the sowers, the tillers, the beekeepers, the horses, the woodcutters and the magicians. Join Us this week!
Futurefarmers presents amidst: 10 Visions for an Alternative Everyday: A Gathering of Voices from the World of Artistic Research
We are excited to share that we received European STARTS in the City support together with artist Honore D'o, poet Inge Braeckman and farmer Tijs Boelens of deGroentelaar farm. More news soon.
A Meander: A two-year long, multi-species design process resulting in the co-creation of a new public space in Bolzano at the confluence of Eisack and Talvera rivers.
So very honored to contribute to Edition 23 with, "How to not own, but practice a forest".
Six vignettes of Seed Journey on the wonderful, L'Internationale Online.
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"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
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, campus design 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 have published A Variation on Powers of Ten, Sternberg Press, 2012; For Want of a Nail, MIT Press, 2018. They have exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim, 2010, New York Museum of Modern Art 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial 2000, Sharjah Biennale 2017, Taipei Biennale 2018 and the Walker Art Center 2009.
Amy Franceschini
San Francisco, USA
Amy 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 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 creates relational objects that invoke action and inquiry; not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.
In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers as a collaborative platform to consider the social, political and environmental organization of space. 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 in Photography from San Francisco State University and an 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 and is currently faculty in the Master of Eco-Social Design at the Free University in Bolzano, Italy. Amy is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, a 2019 Rome Prize Fellow and a 2017 recipient of Herb Alpert Award for Visual Arts. She received a Creative Work Fund grant for New Media in 2010 and Graham Foundation support for Victory Gardens (2007) and A Variation on the Powers of Ten 2011.
Michael Swaine
Seattle, USA
Michael Swaine was originally trained as a ceramicist. 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 a full time professor in the 3D4M at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Lode Vranken
Gent, Belgium
Lode Vranken has been the lead architect and philosopher of Futurefarmers since 2008. Lode's fascination with installing situations of renewed socio-spacial dynamics began with a Transpolar Catapult built in Anchorage, Alaska and has manifest in various modalities since then. Lode has been practicing architecture internationally since 1993. 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, passive housing, and zero 
energy construction. He is also a partner of dear Pigs in Belgium and a member of the The Ghent School for Metaphysics.
Stijn Schiffeleers
Gent, Belgium
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 collaborated with Futurefarmers between 2003 - 2017.
Anya Kamenskaya
Oakland, USA
Anya Kamenskaya is an ag-centric organizer and green building apprentice. Within Futurefarmers, she manages the Indigenous Farming Project, a tribal food sovereignty initiative in California's Owens Valley and fostered early relations with farmers in Flatbread Society in Oslo, Norway. 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. She received her B.S. in Agroecology from UC Berkeley.
Dan Allende
Daniel is an artist, builder and inventor. He spent many summers orienteering by canoe in Canada where he went 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 his M.F.A. (2015) at Carnegie Mellon. Dan collaborated with Futurefarmers between 2009-2015 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.
Cooley Windsor
Chicago, USA
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.
Elizabeth Thomas
San Francisco, USA
Elizabeth Thomas produces research-based and site-responsive artworks across a range of media. She has collaborated with Futurefarmers for over a decade. As Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, she curated A Variation on the Powers of Ten and co-edited the companion publication. She authored an introductory text for a project publication connected to Futurefarmers' exhibition, Erratum: Brief Introductions, at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, and most recently an essay for the catalog of Futurefarmers' survey exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Out of Place, In Place. Beyond her work with Futurefarmers, she teaches in the Curatorial Practice program at California College of the Arts and the Exhibition and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute and writes for a range of publications.
Seed Mast
2015
Seed Mast is a traditionally constructed boat mast and spar, filled with ancient grains collected and grown by Futurefarmers' Flatbread Society in Oslo, Norway. The wooden mast is stepped into a chute covered by a fine patina of flour and water, and a horizontal spar holds a growing collection of seeds as it might a sail. At once a library and a silo, Seed Mast is the first of many steps in provisioning toward the Flatbread Society Seed Journey – a sea-faring voyage in which the grains will be transported to their geographic origins in the middle east. This reverse migration is imagined as a "rescue," and falls within a larger... more >
Seed Mast is a traditionally constructed boat mast and spar, filled with ancient grains collected and grown by Futurefarmers' Flatbread Society in Oslo, Norway. The wooden mast is stepped into a chute covered by a fine patina of flour and water, and a horizontal spar holds a growing collection of seeds as it might a sail. At once a library and a silo, Seed Mast is the first of many steps in provisioning toward the Flatbread Society Seed Journey – a sea-faring voyage in which the grains will be transported to their geographic origins in the middle east. This reverse migration is imagined as a "rescue," and falls within a larger movement to protect the rights of small farmers. The project also imagines food, and grains in particular, as a symbol of resistance in the wake of intellectual property rights as they relate to biological matter. As a preparation and anchor of the forthcoming journey, Seed Mast is also accompanied by a broadside print which details the mast's storied cargo along with a new text entitled Seeds of Time, written by anthropologist Michael Taussig.