niels peter flint - in short

2024

Summary

Niels Peter Flint (NPF) is a visionary designer, architect, artist, and innovative self-creationist with over 40 years of experience.

A pioneer in sustainable design, he seamlessly integrates sustainability into all aspects of his work, both personal and professional. His passion lies in marrying artistic expression with innovation and sustainable solutions, creating a holistic approach to design across various disciplines.

Experience

• 2010-Present: Independent Consultant, developing among other projects sustainable micro house and other architectural concepts.

• 2022-Present: Collaboration with Arapaha: Developing innovative and artistic products from recyclable bioplastics - see more click here.

• 2018-Present: Founder LOKAL (art galleries in France and Denmark): Showcasing sustainable art and materials - see more click here.

• Various Periods: Freelance Architect and owner of NPFLINT Consultancy and Stage Designer: Diverse projects across Denmark, UK, Japan, India etc.

• 2002-2007: Owner EXPERIENCE DESIGN LAB India

• 1980s: working with Designer Ettore Sottsass, Milan. Envisioned and founded O2 International, a sustainability-focused design network that fostered collaboration among designers and promoted environmentally responsible practices in the design industry - see more here https://www.o2.org.

Skills and Expertise

• Design & Architecture: Architecture, design, sustainable vision concept development, micro house development.

• Art: integration of art into design and architecture, stage design, installation, visual art - specialized in sustainable concepts.

• Sustainability: Deep knowledge and commitment to sustainable practices in all aspects of work.

• Project Management: Experience managing diverse projects across various disciplines.

• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills, demonstrated through various projects and partnerships.

• Public Speaking: Experience delivering talks and workshops globally.

Education

• Architecture, Design, and Stage Design: Studies in Denmark, UK, Prague

• Performance Art: Aarhus Theatre Academy

Additional Information

• Lifelong Learner: Continuously researches and explores new sustainable materials and technologies, various diciplines in visual art, yoga, personal development etc.

• Global Perspective: Lived and worked in various locations throughout the world.

• Passionate Communicator: Actively shares knowledge through talks, workshops, and other platforms.

• Website: www.npflint.com

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npflint/

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/npflint

• Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niels-peter-flint-2574776/

niels peter flint = NPFlinTales & npflintfutures = www.npflint.com

You have landed on a site always UNDER CONSTRUCTION..

This is a very personal site in many ways, but its also a site where you hopefully can find inspiration to live in new and wonderfully different ways. For more than 36 years I have been envisioning new innovative sustainable often very radical solutions - solutions that always will improve life not just for humans but for life - in general - and that means death as well.

Our world today is full of so many taboos and its getting increasingly harder to operate as a free - responsible - spirit. Massive economic interests and humongous technological developments - and a profound lack of longterm visions and planning - means that Homo Sapiens is much more on the road to global suicide than they were when I started working with sustainability more than 36 years ago.

NPFlinTales & npflintfutures

NPFLINTALES and NPFLINTFUTURE are stories or visions you might also call it - generated in my life - or right now.

NPFLINTALES – its my stories, my tales, the wisdom and inspirations given to me, its my visions and dreams as well and its also me - its also NPFLINT-past-TALES - a bit from my past that maybe some of you might find interesting.

NPFLINTFUTURE - its mainly my proposals, more concrete visions, concept etc. for how we can transform human activity on this planet into something that makes sustainable sense - but also satisfies the needs of modern humans - and could we call it “modern nature”.

niels peter flint

But before I go on - a bit about who I am. I was born in Ringsted Denmark in 1959 - long time ago...and yet it feels like yesterday. As a kid I was very stimulated by my parents to do lots of creative stuff - I was building huge projects in the garden with old cardboard boxes, experimenting with lots of things and then I had lots of space and time for playing - among other things with Lego. 

I started architecture school right after college and was facinated - still is - by what we as humans can do. The story is long so I if you want to explore more about who I am you are welcome to read more on my old site which I still use since its part of my history in so many ways. So if you want to read more history then go to the menu above and chose click npflint old site, which will bring you to my old site that has not not been touched for the past at least 5 years.

I have realized how difficult it is to communicate what is close to my heart - namely that we as humans start a profound and fundamental change in order to create the basis for a new culture or maybe I should even call it a new global civilization - and yes its in many ways very banal nevertheless for my part a profound desire to support the development of a new world where wars do not exist and where humans thrive in and part of nature in collaboration with new - appropriate - technologies  – and in order to go there - even start the discussion - I have realized that what we really need to discuss are values about how to live better – so for therefore this NPFlinTales and my work in general.

npflint CORE VALUES

Below I will tell you a bit about my CORE VALUES – in a very simplified and structured way. I have had the opportunity to work with an excellent coach to get this project of the ground – Angela Lund – and she recommended me to try to identify my CORE VALUES in bullet points – and thats not easy for me, but here they are.

You will see the bullet points turned into a series of "themes" which I use on the NPFlinTales page to which there is a link below - some of this stuff is pretty heavy and complicated therefore this "simplification".

My soft & hard CORE VALUES

Eternal Transformation

– thats whats its all about

 Eternal Transformation is my main thing in life – and death – its life and death and eternity together – everything bounces around in eternal cycles – everything is connected – somehow… we dont really comprehend this today – some maybe, but probably very few. I personally only understand this on a very profound level – but Im trying to become wiser, trying to see, think and feel ETERNAL TRANSFORMATION in everything I do in every step I take in every breath I do…. And its going pretty well one way or another – does it sound religious – not at all, its pragmatic living. Its about understanding ”the system” – nature and the universe and how things really work on a physical level, since that is what we know something about in todays world the more ”spherical” aspects are less understood, but yes I trust its all connected. And in my ”tales” Ill debate and look into that in various ways.

ETERNAL TRANSFORMATION is somehow getting to understand that life without death is impossible and that death as we see it today is an amputated way of looking at life when you take a holistic and maybe also ”spherical” approach. We have reached a point in the development of humans and our lives on this planet where we absolutely have to get to terms with what we come from and how we fit into this amazing ”system” we live in.

- FREEDOM

Freedom is essential for me – but what is freedom…there will be a whole series of NPFlinTales videos about this.

- PLANETWISE / WORLDWISE / WORLDWISDOM / PLANETWISDOM

We need to profoundly change and become what I for years have called "planet-wise" - "kloge-kloge" in Danish - and I suppose it sort of is self explanatory.

- CREATIVITY

As I see it all creatives are "midwifes for helping humans find the lost creativity" - helping humans becoming profoundly creative again - development, innovation, research, creation

- SPHERICAL

From my point of view we need to acknowledge that there is more to it than just being here on planet Earth - the universe is vast and eternal - we need to discuss and accept the more ”spherical” or spiritual aspects of life and eternal transformation - WITHOUT becoming religious - but stay free and responsible spirits.

- JOY

We need to acknowledge the joy of being alive and being healthy

- HEDONISM & EPICURIANISM

Talking joy in a more profound way - allowing ourselves to sense being part of nature and the planet and fundamentally enjoying what nature offers us in abundance - but doing it with a big and deep respect for the coming generations and their needs (and not like today where we indulge irresponsibly in terms of almost anything - our over consumption is not hedonistic nor epicurian today).

- LOVE, PASSION & DIVERSE SEXUALITY

We need to respect that we are creative explorers here on the planet and that we in the coming decades a

- RESSOURCES IN SUSTAINABLE ABUNDANCE

Money is needed today but not tomorrow - Sharing will become common - we will design new monetary systems based on "sustainable and appropriate technological abundance"

- RECOGNITIOn

We need to recognize ourselves - and the world we live in - without becoming religious again....

- RESPONSIBILITY

We need to be responsible again 

- mangfold / diversity

We are myriads of diverse beings on this planet - zillions of cells, atoms and strange structures creates us and all life on this planet - we are all made from the same matter yet we are so different. Embracing UNIVERSAL MANGFOLD is essential for the survival of humans - if we dont get it the coming decades we might eradicate - or become eradicated….. Corona was maybe just the beginning

-sensustainability

Sensual Sustainability - says it all I think….

and where I live……

Below (the last row of pics) my old place in France - MICRO MACRO MONDE where I have spend a lot of time the last 14 years - now Im on the way to make new adventures other places - on Ærø in Denmark at RØNDALGÅRD / LOKAL GALLERI & ATELIER ÆRØ, where I live and do mostly art & nature work now most of the time when Im in Denmark and LOKAL in Normandy, France, where I also have a gallery and a big atelier..... and where I do exhibitions, workshops etc. as well. If you want to know more about these places and what happens there click on the pics below please.

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