The ADM is since 1997 a community of people who are closely linked to each other by the space they share. Experiment, exchange and spontaneity have ensured that the ADM has acquired a place in Amsterdam’s cultural climate. The ADM is, as many other (squat) communities, a fertile germination place for the local and (inter)national cultural climate. Communities as this (at the fringes of the city) appear to often play a leading role for what is now called the Creative Industry.