Futurefarmers

Futurefarmers is a collective of diverse professionals united by a common interest in creating work that is relevant to the time and place around them. Founded in 1995, its design studio functions as a platform to support artistic projects and an artist-in-residence programme. It is made up of artists, designers, architects, anthropologists, writers, computer programmers and farmers who share a desire to create frameworks of exchange that catalyse moments of «not knowing».

Although they collaborate with scientists and are interested in scientific research, they seek to formulate questions in a more open way. Through participatory projects, they generate spaces and experiences where the logic of a situation dissolves and encounters emerge that broaden rather than narrow perspectives, as opposed to reductionist science.

They use a variety of media to create works with the potential to destabilise the logics of «certainty». They deconstruct systems such as food policies, public transport, university campus design and rural agricultural networks in order to visualise and understand their intrinsic logics. Through this decomposition, new narratives emerge that reconfigure the principles that previously dominated such systems. Their work often provides a playful pathway and tools for participants to enter deeper fields of enquiry, not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places where they live.

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