Hospitality, stage 4, will open out further in 2008. Jeanne van Heeswijk, of the Blue House, has planned a series of continuations based on the interventions made as part of stage 4 in 2007. These interventions include transforming the Blue House into a place of cultural asylum, a guest editorial intervention in the 'Open' journal, and the AlmostYou swap of professional positions. All have raised interesting insights into the relationship between guests and hosts in the different instances, tensions, intentions and overstepping inscribed codes.

For 2008, the Blue House would like to focus on the question of how to host 'difference' and allow space for unplanned otherness by means of creating a series of unplanned guests and to establish a network of 'blue houses' on both a local and global level.

There wil be 5 activities, some of these are already in the making:

1) Johan Siebers (Netherlands), planner for future scenarios for the Royal Dutch Shell think-tank. For Hosptiality stage 4, the Blue House has asked him to develop scenarios for the Netherlands as a country that could host diversity.

2) In support of the work of Siebers, Jo van der Spek work on this topic by broadcasting small conferences on Radio Ruisriet on the future of the Netherlands and larger Europe.

3) Artist Roé Cerpac (Israel) has been invited to have a series of conversations with people working at the ECF and people at the Blue House . Cerpac's work is about becoming 'best friend'. He gained recognition for his 'involvement' with others. His encounters with others is based on an unconditional openess. Creating this space of immediate best-friendship is his art.

4) The fourth activity the Blue House proposed was a project to host a festival in Tel Aviv, however, the organisation in Tel Aviv decided to retract for risk reasons. What the Blue house will do now is to write an article for Open on this topic.

5) The last is setting up an exchange of information on a local notion of 'hosting' between the black house of kuda.org (CK13) and with the newly established Blue House in Hong Kong. The idea is to set up a network of cultural places around the world that actively push for new public domains, i.e., places for social interaction and as a host for deviant social thoughts and cultural emergences. In connecting these places the Blue House hopes to enable a global guesting and hosting exchange about new interventions into and demands for public space.

"...Quite often the guest is only seen as a guest when he moves according to the rules and beliefs of the host. Guests who 'misbehave' from the perspective of the host are no longer seen as the guest, but as intruders who disrupt the process of hosting. So the question will then be 'how can a host make space for a guest who questions his values and puts his beliefs to the test?'".

— excerpt, Jeanne van Heeswijk, in letter outlining the 4th stage of AlmostReal, January 2008.