Online Manifestation

To figure out how youtube and blogs work, I'll start out with a couple videos that pretty much explain what squatting is and how it works.

This first one is by youtube user TashPhoto.



This second one is by journalist Julia Dimon.




This site lists various squat bars and restaurants.

[squat!net] is "an international internet magazine with main focus on squatted houses, car sites and other free spaces." It doesn't just focus on Amsterdam, but it seems up to date.

ASCII is an organization that uses squatted spaces for their HQ, located in Amsterdam, and for workshops they host.

Well-known squat restaurant: De Peper. I definitely want to eat here sometime. They also do other various events.

OT301 is a squat venue that hosts performances and film screenings, amongst other events. They happen to have their own youtube station here.


The more I read about squatting, the more attached to this topic I get. Research directions I might want to go in:
-How is a space transformed once it is squatted? I want to see if having squatters "tidies up" the space, or if having squatters results in the place getting trashed.

-How do squatted spaces become a center of culture? I would want to study how squat cafes/restaurant/venues breed a culture within itself, but also contributes to the large squat culture. Furthermore, shared squatted living spaces also seem to contribute to the larger squat culture, and it seems like an interesting intersection to study.