Franceschini founded
Futurefarmers in 1995 as a way to bring together multidisciplinary artists. Through
Futurefarmers she has collaborated with a number of artists, including Sascha Merg, Josh On. In 2002 she began graduate studies at Stanford University, and in 2004 she co-founded
Free Soil, an international collective working between reflection, research and design. She was the lead artist of "Soil Kitchen", which is a temporary, windmill-powered architectural intervention and multi-use space where citizens enjoy free soup in exchange for soil samples; "Soil Kitchen" also offered free pH and heavy metal testing and produced a Philadelphia Brownfields Map and Soil Archive. She has taught at
Stanford University and the
San Francisco Art Institute, where she lectured on media theory and taught practical courses. Her aim is to sensitize students to the interaction between design and processes that appear to be unrelated. Frequent themes in Franceschini's work are
gardening,
public space,
technology, and
social change. Franceschini's work often takes a visual approach to articulating perceived conflicts between humans and nature, and the individual to a community. She works both as an artist as well as a designer. In 2010 she co-authored (with Daniel Tucker) the book "Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People, Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement", which features interviews and photos essays (by Anne Hamersky) with politically engaged farmers across the United States. ==Exhibitions==