Collaboration on the canals: setting sail with Amsterdam’s captains of the creative industry

As part of The Drum’s Creative City focus on Amsterdam, we jump on board a canal boat and dip our toes into Amsterdam’s collaborative creative scene.
In the shadow of the recently revived A’dam Toren, a renovated tugboat with the name De Watermannen painted on its side bobs gently on the waters of Amsterdam Noord, getting ready to coast its canals.
De Watermannen’s captain for the night is Bart Kokke, an independent creative producer and veteran of Amsterdam’s adver