2024
Make-Shift Research Year ➔ Third places & Mixed-Use - Berlin / Dakar / Brussels / Amsterdam / Paris / Marseille
➔ Curatorial advisory to PULSE festival for architecture and design
➔ Development ➔ international Peer Learning Network - city & material futures:
circular, sustainable, co-creative.
PULSE Archi. / image - Césure, Paris
2022 - 2023
RE/View the Next
HPP Architects Communication campaign
Curatorial ➔ Consulting: As strategic and curatorial consultants, Make_Shift co-developed HPP Architects’ award-winning communication campaign. We shaped the exhibition design at Aedes Architecture Forum, and created editorial content. ➔ Design research in collaboration with Bauwelt, guiding HPP's narrative towards future-oriented architectural discourse.
(image credit HPP Architekten, Florian Langer)
2022 - ongoing
MODELLVERFAHREN - MODEL PROCESS MÄUSEBUNKER:
Make_Shift curated and led the concept development of a pioneering transformation process for the brutalist Mäusebunker. Commissioned by the Berlin Heritage Office (Landesdenkmalamt), we created a new collaborative model integrating urban policy, architecture, and civic activism. Since 2023, Mäusebunker is officially heritage-listed. The model process is set to continue. Symposium: Mäusebunker - A Transformation / The Turning of the Ark
Berlinische Galerie, 30/6/2023. Modellverfahren minidocumentary here.
Berlin
https://www.modellverfahren-maeusebunker.de
Symposium - Mäusebunker Transformation Exhibition Suddenly Wonderful, Berlinische Galerie
2020 - 2021
Theater Karlshorst to KAHO:
Commissioned by Stiftung Stadtkultur, Make_Shift designed the transformation process for KAHO – converting a Soviet-era theatre into a future-oriented and spatially modular cultural centre. The project foregrounded adaptive reuse, multi-stakeholder planning, and change design for cultural infrastructures.
2022 - 2023
EU Mies van der Rohe Award 2021 & 2022 Jury Member
As part of the EU Mies van der Rohe Award jury, Francesca Ferguson contributed to selecting Europe’s most innovative architectural practices. Includes jury discussions, finalist interviews (Grafton Architects, Deadline, BDR Bureau), and features.
miesarch.com Grafton Architects Town House, Kingston University Frizz 23 by Deadline Architects Enrico Fermi School, BDR bureau
5.2023
DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURE:
Francesca Ferguson served on the founding Board of Trustees for DIVIA, a platform advancing gender equity and visibility in architecture. The inaugural prize honored Marta Maccaglia (Semillas, Peru), with finalists including MUF, May al-Ibrashy, Tosin Oshinowo, and Noella Nibakuze
Berlin, Venice, Global.
diversityinarchitecture.de archdaily.com #DIViA
31.5.2022
Panelist @ Digitalbau, World Architects + C.FATH ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION
Cologne: Panelist in a discussion on digital tools in architectural communication and the role of curated narratives in shaping public understanding of the built environment.
30.10.2021
Participation in the architecture discussions curated by Marcin Szczelina - editor in chief of Archisnob at Warsaw Home - Interior design business fair
Warsaw
23.9.2021
Moderation of the Curator's Talk „Thinking forward through the past?“ as part of Ludwig Heimbach's exhibition "Mäusebunker & Hygieneinstitut: Experimental Setup Berlin" @ the "Pavilion Days" of the Venice Architecture Biennial, 2021
IUAV, Venice
15.9.2021
Screening of "Battleship Berlin" by Nathan Eddy with a discussion between Lukáš Landa, Felix Torkar und Francesca Ferguson
Czech Centre Berlin
10.9.2021
Panel discussion curated by Make_Shift as part of the Modellverfahren Mäusebunker for heritage futures in Berlin. - in cooperation with Berlinische Galerie
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
3.9.2021
Wissensräume unserer Gesellschaft
Presentation on knowledge spaces and urban learning formats.
19.6.2021
Curated TRIALOGUE with Julia Erdmann & Nicole Srock-Stanley on RE_MakingCity through adaptive and inclusive design.
WIA Women in Architecture Festival, Berlin
