Amsterdam. The former shipyard NDSM has turned into an artistic hotspot. Abandoned in the early eighties of last century - artists took over the enormous spaces and created workingspace, exhibition space and started some famous activities there like Robodock. In the nineties, Eva de Klerk and some other artists/squaters-in-residence developed an ambitious plan to develop the shipyard as a cultural-creative-entrepreneurial environment and they got supported by the government.
This idea is being executed by hundreds of artists who built their own offices and workplaces.
To date the municipity of Amsterdam-Noord put the wharf up for sale and we -entrepreneurial artists and artistic entrepreneurs - are developing alternative routes to make sure that the wharf will not be confiscated by euro-signed-eyed project developers. No slash 'n burn tactics for our NDSM.
We've invited the members of the council to visit us and see the wharf through our eyes.
