SCAM

Speculative Cultural Asset Management. An incubator that uses real estate to undo real estate.

TypeDe-debtingCultural TenancyAdaptive ReuseCommoningCounter-ValuationStewardship Transfer
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Positions

A position is opened when a building carrying public life is about to be repriced, and it is closed only when the building can no longer be sold against the people inside it.

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Sämjan Invest

CSAM documentation of a former factory occupied by performing arts companies
Malmö

An old factory on what was once the periphery of Malmö, now a hip neighbourhood, occupied by three internationally recognised performing arts groups running more than 150 events a year. The portfolio around it is described as transaction-intensive and opportunistic — our own words, read back to us. The position is followed from now until every window for negotiation has closed: either the obituary of a place that once produced culture, or a manual for obstructing your own extinction.

Opened
2019
Occupants
Dockteater, Potato Potato, Karavan
Method
Participatory action research
Status
Negotiation open
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Girl Math

CSAM working notes from the Girl Math counter-valuation project
Luxembourg / Malmö

A valuation experiment: the household arithmetic dismissed as irrational — it was on sale, it was cash, the walk was free — applied line by line to the way a portfolio is underwritten. Reproductive labour, maintenance and the hours nobody bills are entered as assets. Where the two models disagree, the disagreement is the finding.

Opened
2025
Field
Reproductive city, commoning
Output
Counter-valuation, published
Status
Research live