In the context of my MA thesis, I was interested in links between the history of Tehran, contemporary architectural theory, and, on a more general level, what has been termed the organization of knowledge in the humanities, particular in view of its complicity with certain more recent forms of colonialism. During the summer of 1999, I pursued this line of research in collaboration with dhz architects, within the framework of the europandom competition. As for the collective endeavor at hand, my main contribution is the Gashtari website, which I'm working on with Andrew Hieronymi. Seeing as I'm the one "permanent" Group22 member living here, a further contribution to our first collective effort will be that of laying the ground for the trip to Tehran in April. The idea is to help blend the stereotypical roles of tourist, ethnologist, and visiting first-world artist/intellectual into something that might be more worthwhile. Besides working as a part-time newspaper editor and translator, I'm involved in the project of setting up Bad Jens, an online feminist newsletter to be based in Tehran.