Francesca Abbado

Francesca Abbado (b. 1994, Milan) is a production and project manager whose work sits at the intersection of performance, participation, and cultural policy. She has collaborated with both independent and institutional arts organizations in Italy, including Fondazione Romaeuropa, Spazio Griot, Daniele Cipriani Entertainment, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, and Climate Art Project.

Her academic background in Politics from SOAS University of London together with her experience working with the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education, has informed her interest in the social and political dimensions of artistic practice. Her work spans performing arts production, artist development, and cultural programming, with a particular focus on socially engaged and research-driven projects. Francesca is currently an MA candidate in Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Project Title: Exercises for the Imagination of a Space

Project Description: The Mediterranean Bush Research Center is a proposal for a gathering space on a parcel of Mediterranean scrubland in Sardinia. Conceived as a site of rehearsal, it explores how we might gather on land without reproducing the logics of possession and settlement, cultivating forms of reciprocity between human and more-than-human worlds.