Daan Sonnemans is the co-founder of Kantamanto Social Club, a community-driven upcycled fashion collective rooted in Ghana’s Kantamanto Market. Through this initiative, he works alongside makers and storytellers to amplify perspectives from the Global South, strengthen circular fashion ecosystems, and challenge extractive industry narratives. As a program manager at the Fab City Foundation, he has co-created the Fab City Challenge in Bali, Bhutan, and Mexico, contributed to the Fab City Awards, and coordinates the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation, where he co-leads Activating Communities. Daan also stewards the Decolonial Fashion Futures Lab, fostering reciprocal knowledge exchange between Ghanaian upcyclers and Dutch fashion institutions to advance regenerative, community-driven fashion futures.
Daan Sonnemans
