Interviews
Francesca Ferguson Interview / S AM / Urban Drift
08.19.09 / 2009 · Basel · FRANCESCA FERGUSON · S AM · Swiss Architecture Museum · Switzerland · Urban Drift
Interview of Francesca Ferguson [1967-], curator for architecture and urbanism. Director of the Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM) from 2006 until a few weeks ago, she developed a program related to a trans-disciplinary approach in local and international contexts.
Ferguson can be categorized in the not-so-new-tendency of Architecture has to go beyond or the expansion of the discipline’s limits. Her position in the discussion is relevant because she is a journalist –not an architect- and she has a lot of experience in this field:
After studying for her Master’s degree at Oxford University, Ferguson worked as associate producer for ABC News in Berlin [1989]. She covered German re-unification and all political changes that implied. From 1992, she worked as a freelance journalist in Asia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
We knew about Ferguson through Urban Drift -her battle horse- where she had organized exhibitions like DEUTSCHLANDSCHAFT –on the occasion of the 2004 Venice Biennale- or Talking Cities: The micropolitics of Urban Space –on the program of ENTRY 2006, an international forum at Koolhaas’ Zollverein Mining Complex, Essen, Germany-.
In this interview we asked Francesca Ferguson about the last Venice Biennale –and its eclectic outcomes-, the role publication in the discipline –and the position of S AM Magazine-, and the methodology that set up at the Museum.
Finally, we questioned her about the relation between the Swiss ‘old school’ architects –like, Zumthor or Märkli- and the new ones –i.e. Pedrocchi Meier, HHF or Christian Kerez-.
This interview is produced by 0300TV, like all the audiovisual material we post on this website.
http://www.vimeo.com/6166943Recorded Feb 2009
Interview by Kim Courreges / Felipe De Ferrari M.
Transcripted by Charles Bédin
Edited by Eduardo Corales
Music by Matías Aguayo
Posted by Felipe De Ferrari M.
