Nikolaj’s mission is to explore how to make cities regenerative, inclusive, and liveable. His purpose is to ensure that our cities support the lives we want to live without putting a strain on the planetary wellbeing. With a specific focus on liveability, biodiversity, and climate he seeks new solutions for a local placebased development.
Nikolaj is leading the focus area Urban Futures and with the specific initiative EVOLVE Nikolaj is exploring the futures of urbanism by identifying drivers, building scenarios, and making new narratives through keynotes and workshops all over the world. EVOLVE is a collaborative platform where the Institute builds capabilities to enable individuals and organizations to imagine, work with, and shape the future.
Nikolaj has a deep knowledge of urban governance, architecture, stakeholder management as well as public and private participation and engagement. His extensive operational experience with developing concrete solutions and policy makes him able to translate megatrends directly into actions and agenda-setting activities.
Nikolaj recognizes that our future trajectory depends on the decisions we make today. In order to make these decisions on an informed basis, Nikolaj believes that futures studies can push us in the right direction by including insights in megatrends, the planetary boundaries, regenerative thinking and leadership in the decision-making process in all parts of our society from the kitchen table to the boardroom.
Cand Scient. in Geography and Communication, Roskilde University
Nikolaj loves being in the nature – and cooking on bonfire is such a big passion that he has made foodfireandthoughts.com. He says: Let’s get out there, do some co-cooking and take a deep chat around the fire!
