Portrait of Niels Jacobsen

Creative Partner, CO-PI

Niels Jakobsen

  • 2024
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival
  • 2023
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival
  • 2020
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival
  • 2025
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Niels Jacobsen gestaltet Denkwerkzeuge für die öffentliche Transformation – visuelle Modelle, Texte und Grenzobjekte, die komplexe Zusammenhänge verständlich machen und neue Gespräche ermöglichen. Als Kreativpartner bei CO-PI unterstützt er Veränderungsprozesse in der Verwaltung – etwa im Kontext innovativer Beschaffung, grüner Transformation oder politischer Verantwortung für Gemeinwohl-Innovationen. Seine Arbeiten helfen, jenseits von Fach- und Systemgrenzen gemeinsame Verständigung zu stiften. Dabei glaubt Niels: Wirklicher Wandel braucht bewegliche Formen – aus Pappe, nicht aus Stein. Seine Objekte sind nie fertig, sondern verändern sich mit der Wirklichkeit, die ihnen begegnet. Niels hat Sozialwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Aarhus studiert und lebt in Kopenhagen. Denken ohne Zeichnen? Für ihn inzwischen unvorstellbar.

Niels Jacobsen designs thinking tools for public transformation—visual models, texts, and boundary objects that make complex relationships understandable and open up new conversations. As a creative partner at CO-PI, he supports change processes in public administration—whether in the context of innovative procurement, green transformation, or political responsibility for public good innovation. His work helps foster shared understanding across disciplinary and systemic boundaries. Niels believes that real change requires flexible forms—made of cardboard, not stone. His objects are never finished; they evolve with the realities they encounter. He studied social sciences and art history at Aarhus University and lives in Copenhagen. Thinking without drawing? By now, it's unthinkable for him.

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