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I am an activist, social designer & communicator. I write, teach, draw, build, inform, organize. 

Emergent Strategy and Social Innovation by taking action.

Being a multifaceted professional I identify myself as a strategic writer, designer, lecturer, human rights activist, and artist. I am involved in the Co-Creative Agency, where I focus on shaping change to impact societies and worlds. I am actively setting up this co-creative agency – The Right to Create Communication – and the associated Right to Create foundation, underlining my commitment to collaborative and innovative approaches in my field of work and causes.

Additionally, my involvement in social and cultural projects has been seen and is ongoing since 2004. Before that time I squatted, worked in the corporate world to learn more about communication strategies and dedicated myself mainly to animal rights, working on boats. After I became a mother, I realized how fragile human life can be. I softened up and shifted my activsm to humans in my communities. Since then I have been working together with undocumented groups in art projects like Redocumented, the Solidarity App for information for undocumented people in 2013, the Good Morning Team, the We Are Here football team, the Amsterdam City Rights coalition, PrintRights, The City Rights App, Access Denied Agency, the right to Banking and other initiatives.

My involvement is part of my broader interest in social design and creative activism, where I seek ways to use my skills in conceptdevelopment, information design and art to advocate for social justice and civil rights, to engage in community-oriented projects with and by marginalized groups, or people in need of information: be it artists or refugees.

My work, particularly in the context of Amsterdam City Rights and other social initiatives, highlights my dedication to use co-creative tools to facilitate the access to human rights, particularly concerning marginalized and underserved communities. Making sure they have to opportunity to take the stand.

contact@annettekouwenhoven.com