Silvia Franceschini is an associate curator at Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt. She is a curator, editor and researcher whose work deals with issues of post-colonialism, alternative modernities and globalisation. Franceschini holds a PhD in design and visual cultures from the Politechnical University of Milan and was a research fellow at the Exhibition Research Lab of the Liverpool John Moores University and at the Strelka Institute for Media Architecture and Design in Moscow. She has curated exhibitions and research programs for the V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, The School of Kyiv. Kyiv Biennial 2015, Cittadellarte Pistoletto Foundation in Biella and Futura Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, among others. She is the co-author of Global Tools. When Education Coincide with Life (Nero Editions, 2019) and editor of Curator Without a System (Sternberg Press, Upcoming).