Charity Jam for World TB Day

On World TB Day, the 24th of March 2010, the ARCHIVE Institute hosted 'Charity Jam - Bands for ARCHIVE on World TB Day'. In the heart of quirky Shoreditch - London, up and coming bands The Tigers of Rushmore, Vices and The Colour Movement, and top London DJ Ben Gomori entertained guests with musical delights and gave their all for the cause. There were also several guest speakers, including ARCHIVE's Founder Peter Williams and former TB patient David Olapoju who spoke movingly about his experiences of being diagnosed with TB while homeless.

The money raised from the Charity Jam will be indispensable to ARCHIVE but perhaps the most rewarding part of the evening came from the attendance one particular young lady. On hearing of the event that day from her TB nurse, she contacted ARCHIVE in advance to say how uplifted she was to see that other people cared about TB patients who, like her, suffer from the disease.

BBC World Service Interview

In order to support the cause and mark the occasion of World TB Day, the BBC World Service spoke with ARCHIVE's Executive Director Peter Williams about the disease and the impact of inadequate housing on transmission rates. In particular, the interview highlighted the growing problem with Tuberculosis in London, and how damp overcrowded housing conditions are driving up incident rates.

Click here to listen to the interview in full!

New Members of ARCHIVE

ARCHIVE welcomes two important members to the North American team. Philip Williams has joined as Interim Regional Manager and Kaitie Kozarek has joined as Development Manager. Philip has an MSc in International Development and experience in post-Katrina reconstruction. Katie has an MSc in Urban Planning and years of architectural experience in the US, Asia and the Caribbean. To find out more information about both Philip and Katie please visit ARCHIVE's team page.

ARCHIVE Launches in the UK

ARCHIVE UK officially launched in October of 2009, and after many baby steps has finally begun to take active strides against the challenge of poor health and housing in the UK. Now is an exciting time for ARCHIVE UK, and if you wish to become involved or even just find out more about current projects, please visit the UK website at www.archiveinstitute.org/uk.

ARCHIVE receives UnLtd's Millennium Award

In July, ARCHIVE was the recipient of a grant by the Millennium Commission through the UnLtd awards for social entrepreneurship, to implement small scale projects in low income communities. The awards are designed to help make new ideas become real projects and are aimed at individuals or informal groups of people who have an idea and want help getting it off the ground. The money is to help with the running costs of the project. Thanks to the team at UnLtd for their belief in the importance of and urgency in using housing as a central strategy for improving health among the poor.

ARCHIVE appoints new Asia Regional Manager

Dr. Chong Keng Hua is a researcher, designer, lecturer and entrepreneur. He is currently lecturing Architecture at Singapore Polytechnic, where he takes the role of coordinator for History and Theory of Architecture module. He has published several papers in local and international journals as well as conferences, and has also been involved in many interesting projects both in Singapore and overseas, including community club, school, library, factory, hotel, master plan, a bridge and a small village hut. Keng has a PhD from the National University of Singapore and was recently promoted to a father of two boys. He loves his family dearly!

ARCHIVE appoints new Trustee

Al Foreman is an Executive Director in the Financial Sponsor Group (FSG) in J.P.Morgan’s Investment Banking Division. For private equity sponsor clients FSG provides M&A advisory services, equity underwriting, and debt financing for financial sponsor-backed leveraged buyouts.

Mr. Foreman joined J.P.Morgan in 2005 as a Managing Director and Global Head of Business Development for the Private Equity Fund Services group, responsible for sales and product development for private equity firms and institutional investors. Prior to J.P.Morgan, he served as Director and Global Head of Business Development for Vitech Systems Group (Equitrak), where he was responsible for the private equity division’s enterprise class software sales and consulting engagements. He has also served as a senior business development executive at Virtual Growth Incorporated and has worked in private banking at Citigroup. Mr. Foreman is on the board of directors for the charitable organizations Get Together Foundation for the Children, and the Ashley Stewart Stores Community Foundation.

He holds a Juris Doctorate from the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Connecticut School of Business where he was a United Technologies Finance Scholar and a Scholar Athlete award recipient. Mr. Foreman is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association.

ARCHIVE on Facebook

We want your ideas!

At ARCHIVE, we recognise that ideas can come from all sources. That’s why we’re using online social networking sites to create open forums for discussion and debate, so that we can continue to learn from you.

We’ve opened up to Facebook to allow the opportunity for our followers across the world to share their thoughts, ideas and opinions in the hope that this will provoke productive debate and the chance for you to engage more fully with the work that we carry out.

This is a continuation from the ARCHIVE Institute forum created by Bora Mici, and we hope that you will similarly to use this as a chance to become even more involved in our work. Use it for anything – to share news stories that are of interest, to put forward an idea that you think could be used in our work, or even for critique.

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We hope to hear from you soon!

ARCHIVE in Colour

Some of our friends and supporters may have noticed a stark, drastic change here at ARCHIVE. Like all changes, it has exposed dormant ideologies, and ignited heated passions. What started as a simple observation, has quickly snowballed into an issue that once uncovered, could not be politely filed away.

So what was the observation you ask? It was that the internet supports webpages that have more than two colors.

Suddenly everyone here started dreaming beyond our old monochromatic lens. Shades of red, grey, pink, and white danced through everyone’s head. And with that our talented designer proposed the following scheme. We hope you like it.