The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (known in the Netherlands as Fonds BKVB) placed an appeal in various Dutch news and trade papers, in which an ‘intendant’ for cultural diversity was sought. The jury consisting of Els van der Plas (chair), Mavis Carillho, Raoul de Jong, Johan Pijnappel, Engin Celikbas, Bart de Baere, Nikki Gonnissen, Wouter Vanstiphout and Lex ter Braak selected not one ‘intendant’, as was orginially planned, but decided considering the diversity of applications to chose 6 projects of individuals or collectives. They are Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi; Binna Choi and Kyongfa Che, Jeanne van Heeswijk and Dennis Kaspori, Memar Dutch (Ergün Erkoçu, Cihan Bugdací and Abdeluahab Hammiche); Michael Tedja, Remy Jungerman and Gillion Grantsaan; Eline van der Vlist and Abdellah Karoum. The ‘intendants’ will realize there projects in 2007 and 2008, and will public present there outcomes at several moments and places during this period. Archis is asked to provide a projectmanager who will support the ‘intendants’ if necessary and conceptualize overall presentations.

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For the Zurich based design research institute Design2context Archis Tools developed a one day module for its postgraduate course on Design and Identity. It included excursions to Amsterdam Bijlmermeer and Almere Stad, presentation at the town hall and a reader (2006).

A new quarter in new town Almere, The Netherlands, would be fully based on individual plot development. Still some sort of overall organisation and securing spatial and social qualities on an urban scale would be needed. Archis Tools advised on the architect selection and formulation of the brief for this idea competition (2006).

The new architecture library of the University of Taichung, Taiwan, needed advise on what to collect in a library of the 21st century. Archis Tools produced a collection concept based on peer-to-peer and network-based knowledge. Top ten results from the high profile network were combined with the titles five top institution libraries had I common. This resulted in a short list of 5000 titles to include in the collection.