Those who say it can’t be done, are usually interrupted by others doing it.
- James Baldwin, american writer -
What is activist communication?
Posted on November 13, 2022
The beauty of chance
I came to the Graphic Workshop Amsterdam to play with wooden letters and ink. And maybe design a few cool activist posters. Unexpectedly, I discovered that working with the printing press is a beautiful metaphor for working in transition. ...
Posted on April 17, 2021
‘It takes artists to break the patterns’
What if we could have clean drinking water and grow crops anywhere in the world? Wouldn’t that be great?! The good news is: now we can. With the brand-new invention by the Dutch artist Ap Verheggen and engineer Peter van ...
Posted on April 17, 2021
Transition & art
A snippet of news. Recently, I have launched my own newsletter, because I have set up camp at the cross roads of transition and art. As a communication activist I work and experiment freely and eagerly with a great diversity ...
Back to good policing
How often doesn’t one hear a professional sighing: ‘I love my job, but the organisation I work for…’ Police people, nurses, teachers and many other professionals are constantly prevented from doing their work properly by all kinds of rules, regulations ...
Read caseBerlin Change Days
‘A tribal meeting for people with a passion for change.’ The Berlin Change Days is an annual forum for change makers, change facilitators and transformation agents, where you can learn, network and celebrate together with 150 people from around the ...
Read caseCo-created magazine
Designers Elien van Egdom, Barbara Pilipp and I developed a co-worker magazine for IKEA Netherlands. The concept: a magazine that is produced almost completely by the co-workers themselves. We support the co-workers in this process. The magazine won the Grand ...
Read caseSafe factories
Tchibo, a German coffee brand and chain of stores, has a fresh take on improving working conditions in the factories they source their products from. They are working to achieve this not by power or force, but by dialogue. Between ...
Read caseClimate movement
Water Sensitive Rotterdam is a community initiated by Rotterdam Council to prepare the city for climate change. Together with designer Rogier Rosema, I developed the communication strategy and concept for this movement.
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