
Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners, founded in 1995 by Amy Franceschini, aligned through an interest in hands-on exploration of how people and things, neighbors and grains effect each other, with a common interest in creating frameworks for exchange that catalyze moments of “not knowing”. Through participatory projects, they use various media to create work that has the potential to destabilize logics of “certainty”. They 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. Their 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.