Ole Bouman is the Creative Director of 5th Urbanism/Architecture Bi-City Biennale*Shenzhen (UABB*Shenzhen). He is the former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), globally the largest institute of its kind. In that capacity he revamped the institute to an accessible and popular architecture museum and developed a strong civic agenda. In 2007 he founded the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture, starting at MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts. Prior to joining the NAi, he was the editor-in-chief of Volume, the independent magazine for architecture, for pushing its limits and finding new roles in society. Volume is a project by Archis Foundation, think tank AMO and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. He also was the director of Archis Foundation, active in publishing, consultancy and, as NGO, establishing connections between local design communities in need of expertise and the Archis global knowledge network.