1994, graduate, ESEC Film School, Paris; 1998, degree in Philosophy, Copenhagen University; 2000, degree in Project Management, University of California, Berkeley; 2011, degree in Cross Media Communication, Copenhagen University. Founder/Partner, Skibsted ID, KiBiSi, Manyone, design consultancies; Founder Ogojiii, African design innovation media. Founder, Biomega, bicycle and urban mobility company. Works collected by Cnap, MoMA, Designmuseum Danmark and SFMoMA; Former member of the Board: Danish Design Coucil (Chair), Design2innovate (Vice-Chair); Danish Design Center; Member of the board: Danfoss Foundation. Co-Author, Expand: Stretching the Future by Design, Instant Icon, Tilbage til Virkeligheden (Back To Reality). Author, blog column in Fast Company, Huffington Post, Core77. Recipient of awards: Wallpaper Design Award; I.D. Consumer Design; Red Dot Award, IF, Good Design Award; European 40 under 40. Member, World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Urban Mobility Transitions."
It is critical, right now, that we begin to embrace Vertical Air Mobility as a concept and keenly explore how it could complement today’s horizontal thinking.
In reskilling employees for the AI age, we can choose to try to be better than robots or to complement them. Here's why we should take the latter approach.
Coastlines around the world are vulnerable to rising sea levels. Could huge dams, blocking off areas as large as the North and Baltic Seas, be the answer?
自行车既代表社会希望也象征着白人压迫——自古以来在美国种族文化中有着双重意义。改变这种观念对于打破美国城市的种族和社会差距至关重要。
Bike culture could help progress racial equality and bring massive societal benefits but is tangled in issues of gentrification and economic exclusion.
Once this crisis has passed, we must start designing an aviation sector fit for a low-carbon future. Here's how design innovation can play a huge part.
The pandemic has brought into focus the need to rethink how cargo and freight move around and through our cities. Here's a roadmap for the long-term.
From gyrocopters to ekranoplans – a part-plane, part-hovercraft that can reach speeds of 550km/h – we have options to help us reduce carbon emissions. But do we have the political will?
The Danish capital has committed to completely removing the city's 2 million tons of carbon footprint, even as the city continues to grow, with 100,000 new inhabitants and 20,000 jobs.
Design free-thought can break us out of the traps of ideology and commercial imperatives that have driven entrepreneurship in the past.
Notre idée des entrepreneurs est bien trop souvent basée sur les inventeurs milliardaires.
Gran parte de los mitos sobre quién es una persona empresaria hoy y lo que se necesita para apoyar el espíritu empresarial se basa en las historias de Silicon Valley.
We think of entrepreneurs as people who act opportunistically to secure vast personal wealth. But what if there were a new, more socially responsible model for the 21st century?
By chanelling surplus heat to where it is needed rather than releasing it into the environment, we could limit temperature rises and energy consumption at a stroke
Electric cars are touted as the transport solution of the future, but it's time we woke up to the huge advantages of the electric bike
