Katharine Hibbert

Kath Hibbert set up Dot Dot Dot, a social enterprise, in 2011. Dot Dot Dot gets empty buildings into use by allowing people who do great voluntary work to live in them cheaply, on a temporary basis, i

12 mph politics - the conversation

Breaking records, hospitality, racism, poverty, globalisation and two concepts of hope ... the film of an evening of conversation around "Life Cycles", Julian Sayarer's account of his record-breaking cycling circumnavigation of the globe

By Tony Curzon Price, Katharine Hibbert and Julian Sayarer

/ 26 Jan 2015

Defending property guardianship - everyone benefits

Guardianship, organisations placing people in unoccupied homes as we do at Dot Dot Dot, has come under a fair amount of criticism - most of it is not justified.

By Katharine Hibbert

/ 20 Nov 2014

Optimism, pessimism and rationality

In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and squatter Katharine Hibbert sympathises with alternative living but also wants clear thinking

By Katharine Hibbert

/ 23 Jun 2010

Gutted: council staff wreck council flats

Katharine Hibbert recalls her experiences living in a London squat: councils trashing vacant flats, all to prevent desperate people making some use of them

By Katharine Hibbert

/ 30 Jan 2010