ADVANCING FUTURES CAPABILITIES, COLLECTIVE FORESIGHT, AND INTERGENERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AS LEVERS FOR SYSTEMS CHANGE.

Nicklas builds societal and institutional infrastructures that translate long-term thinking into action. By advancing futures capabilities, collective foresight, and intergenerational responsibility as levers for systems change, his practice drives creative friction and operates at the intersection of public policy, philanthropy, education, and arts and culture.

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He currently serves as Director of Impact and Development and as UNESCO Co-Chair in Futures Capabilities at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and is a co-founding member of the Danish Coalition for Future Generations. Through these roles, he advocates for, initiates, and scales practices that embed futures thinking into decision-making, governance, and public culture.

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Alongside this, he holds a range of roles, including curator at the Soon Lab for Possible Futures (Thoravej 29), faculty member at Parsons School of Design (Paris), national lead for Teach the Future Denmark, member of the Network of Institutions and Leaders for Future Generations, coalition partner to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ polycrisis think-and-do tank, and advisory board member at Niels Brock, Copenhagen Business College.

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Across contexts, his work is anchored in a consistent aim: to strengthen futures capabilities, enable systemic change, and expand society’s capacity to use futures to act in the present.