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Francesca Ferguson is a curator of architecture and urbanism, based in Basel and Berlin.

In 1989, Francesca Ferguson came to Berlin, where she was employed as Associate Producer at the Berlin office of ABC News Network. She covered German re-unification and the political changes taking place in Eastern Europe. From 1992 onwards, she worked freelance as a journal- ist in Asia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for Channel 4, TF 1, BBC 2 and Spiegel TV, among others.

Returning to Berlin, the focus of her work shifted to the curatorial field. After a brief stint as curato- rial assistant at the Kunst-Werke Berlin, she co-organised the "Club Berlin" at the Biennale in Ven- ice. In the years that followed, Francesca Ferguson curated interdisciplinary projects for the House of World Cultures in Berlin, the Gramercy Art Fair in New York, worked as curatorial assis- tant for the Media and Architecture Biennale Artimage in Graz, amongst others, and was respon- sible for the Berlin gallery program for the Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Francesca Ferguson is the initiator of urban drift, an international network for contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism. (www.urbandrift.org) Since 1999, urban drift has organised trans-disciplinary exhibitions, conferences, symposia and workshops that reflect upon architectural themes in the light of economic and social developments.

In 2004 the exhibition she curated DEUTSCHLANDSCAPE - a photographic panorama on Germany's urban peripheries - for the 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale.

urban drift's most recent exhibition, TALKING CITIES - the micropolitics of urban space - is part of ENTRY2006, an international Forum for Architecture and Design at Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany (www.talkingcities.net) (26.08.- 03.12.2006) It features international design, architecture and spatial interventions in a trans-disciplinary exhibition and event platform. The Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel appointed Francesca Ferguson as its new director. She will take over from the museum s current director in mid-september 2006.