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WHAT WE ARE !
Space Intelligence Agency (S.I.A.) prides themselves on not being a conventional architecture and urban research and design office.
S.I.A. has been researching current spatial trends and predicting how they can manifest in our built environment if they continue to persist.
S.I.A. builds on existing statistical analysis, to present future urban scenarios that are hypothetical but not impossible. The strategy, research and design accomplished by Space Intelligence Agency maneuvers between reality and fantasy, science and fiction, current facts and future trends.
S.I.A. thus functions as an experimental coevally practical studio where different disciplines, such as architecture, urban planning, future science, philosophy, design and art meet.
S.I.A. feels that future science and design can and should have a place in the debates that shape spatial, cultural and political policies. The research interests of S.I.A. are broad, reflecting the wide range of research interests, skills and experience of the two principals of the agency and its research partners. While the research agenda will change over time as new issues emerge, projects embrace topics such as ‘Future Thought & Life Style’, ‘City Modeling & Spatial Scenario Making’ and ‘High Density Living’. Each topic provides a clear focus for the research effort of S.I.A. and its external public and private Partners.
WHAT WE DO !
Space Intelligence Agency (S.I.A.) stimulates and simulates possible future urban developments.
S.I.A. develops and designs clear and original concepts for future urban environments.
S.I.A. aims to sketch alternative routes into the urban and architectural future of human society by future spatial scenario making.
S.I.A. consults municipalities and other urban development companies at preliminary design stages to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future.
WHAT YOU GET !
We provide global and local foresight to create insights that can lead to action. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as life style, city life programming, architecture and urbanism.
Visiting address: Heemraadssingel 188, 3021 DM Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Office Telephone: 0031 (0) 10 7070310
Cellphone (Tihamér Salij): 0031 (0)6 28102211
Chamber of Commerce (KvK): 24438325
VAT: NL.2195.22.613.B01
IBAN: NL39ABNA0487819357
Tihamér Hazarja Salij (1974) 
is a trained researcher, architect and artist. After receiving a working stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB), he had been working at the architectural office MVRDV as a researcher and designer. He has worked on several research and design projects as 'The 3D City', 'Pig City', 'The Region Maker' and co-curated the exhibition 'Rhine Ruhr City'. He also worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Technology and Innovation in Amersfoort and Utrecht and has been the coordinator of its Media Faculty.
Tihamér Salij is founding director of Space Intelligence Agency (S.I.A.), an architecture and urban research and design practice based in Rotterdam. S.I.A. studies the contemporary city and innovates in future spatial scenarios and strategies.
Tihamér Salij has written numerous articles for a wide range of topics. Besides his own practice, he has been visiting lecturer at various Universities worldwide, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CHN) and the Academy of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf (GER), the Berlage Institute and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (NL).
At present, Tihamér Salij is affiliated to the urban and architectural think tank The Why Factory, Technical University of Delft, where he teaches master research seminars and design studios on a regular basis. Tihamér Salij as well holds currently a position as International Research and Education Coordinator at the DutchDFA, a governmental program that aim to strengthen and consolidate the international position of the most prominent sectors of the Dutch creative industries.
Tihamér Salij’s research interest lies in human exigency for looking into the future. This research contains both, a historical as well as a futuristic approach. It focuses on the notion and experience of space and time in relation to the imagination and visualization of the human future with particular focus on the conception of Utopia, Paradise and the Ideal City. This research aims at understanding the human drive and mechanisms that are involved in future city scenario making.
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