page_title: Can Masdeu
section_title: Renovations and functions
hierarchical_section_title: Can Masdeu / Renovations and functions
caption_attribution_description: English: A Pot of water this size being warmed in this 400W solar parabola takes about 1 hour to boil - NOTE THAT PRESSURE COOKERS ARE NOT MADE FOR HEATING FROM ABOVE AND ON THE SIDES. NEITHER the pressure cooker's handle nor the internal rubber seal can withstand the heat and will melt.
context_page_description: Can Masdeu is a squatted social centre, residence and community garden in the Collserola Park on the outskirts of Barcelona. In 2001, an international group of activists organizing a conference to raise awareness around climate change squatted the former leper hospital, which had been abandoned for some 53 years. The squat became famous in 2002, when squatters in lockons and on tripods nonviolently resisted an eviction. During a three-day standoff, police were unable to remove the squatters, resulting in the case returning to the courts. After three years, the case was won by the owners, but no eviction notice has since been issued.
  On most Sundays from late September to early June there is an open house and guided tour in which residents explain community living, consensus-based decision-making, ecological gardening and living, and the functioning of the social center. There is a collective meal and from 100 to 300 people come up to participate in free activities related to ecology, activism, and self-sufficiency.
context_section_description: A substantial renovation was necessary to make the space livable. Squatters cleared out rooms and repaired them and moved on to the adjacent space for a period of over 3 years. Residents enjoy a low energy, low impact lifestyle with few low power electrical fixtures and a couple of woodstoves for the sprawling complex.
  The community runs a bike shop and repair clinic, bakes bread for itself and local customers, provides space to the local high school for meetings and performances, and it also hosts meeting of progressive and resistance groups.
caption: Solar energy is used to the maximum
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