Lost Hood

Lost Hood An Augmented Reality Walking Experience on the Spuistraat of Amsterdam Lost Hood is a response to the violence of gentrification. A call to see our cities not as blank canvases for capital, but as living archives of culture, resistance, and human connection. Walk through the Spuistraat. Once the beating heart of Amsterdam's alternative culture. Home to squats, artist collectives, activist hubs, LGBTQI+ movements and graffiti legends. Over the past decade this street has been systematically emptied, sanitized, and sold. The murals painted over. The people pushed out. The memory erased. Lost Hood gives it back. XR artist Abner Preis and his team use augmented reality to project the memories, protests, and visual language of resistance back onto the walls — turning gentrified facades into portals of collective memory. What is Lost Hood? Lost Hood is a site-specific augmented…