In 2002 she began graduate studies at Stanford University, and in 2004 she co-founded Free Soil,[3] an international collective working between reflection, research and design.

Franceschini's work often takes a visual approach to articulating perceived conflicts between humans and nature, and the individual to a community.

[5] In 2010 she co-authored (with Daniel Tucker) the book "Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People, Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement", which features interviews and photos essays (by Anne Hamersky) with politically engaged farmers across the United States.

[6] Radio Forest is a sound installation created by Franceschini and Stijn Schiffeleers near Neerpelt which was restyled by Koen Deprez.

[7] In 2005 she was part of the "SAFE: Design takes on risk" exhibition at MoMA, showing the work Homeland Security Blanket (made with Michael Swaine).