Amos Taylor
Masters Degrees in Futures Studies, and a second in Audio Visual Media Culture
amos.taylor@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7193-3858 |
Areas of expertise
Future generations, anticipatory governance, participatory futures methods, creativity and culture, foresight development, futures literacy. Media Culture, design.
Future generations, anticipatory governance, participatory futures methods, creativity and culture, foresight development, futures literacy. Media Culture, design.
Biography
Amos Taylor is a Project Researcher at Finland Futures Research Centre. His expertise is on participatory based methods in futures studies on research themes of crisis, uncertainty and transformative policy imaginaries.
Research
Research projects:
- 2023-2025: ECOCRIN Business Finland
- 2023-2025: T-Winning Spaces 2035 (https://t-winning-spaces2035.com/). Academy of Finland. RRF funding.
- 2022-2025: Strategic Foresight for Sustainability (https://www.sf4s-project.com/), Erasmus+, European Commission
- 2022 Formas Project, commissioned Report on Futures of Post Agenda2030. (Formas Swedish Sustainable innovation fund)
- 2018-2023: WISE (https://wiseproject.fi/ . Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland
- 2023-2025: RESCUE Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments (https://www.rescue-finland.com/). Academy of Finland.
- 2022: Foresight and Future Generations in Lawmaking (FORGE), VN TEAS
- 2017-2020: BioEcoJust Bioeconomy and Justice. (bioecojust.utu.fi). Academy of Finland
Teaching
Participatory Scenario Planning Laboratory, 2019, 2022, 2023
Sceanrio thinking 2018 - 2019
Strategic Foresight, exe Executive education.
Sustainable Futures, 2020 - 2023
Futures Studies Methods: CLA Causal Layerd Analysis, lecture Futures Clinique method lecture,
Publications
- Constructive conversations on resilient urban futures (2023) Heinonen Sirkka, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos, Rashidfarokhi Anahita, Toivonen Saija, Tähtinen Lassi
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Coolest Student Papers at Finland Futures Research Centre 2022-2023 - Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen valittuja opiskelijatöitä 2022–2023
(2023) Heino Hanna, Ahlqvist Toni, Ahvenharju Sanna, Ferreira-Aulu Marianna, Kaboli Akhgar, Lehtiö Kati, Puustinen Sari, Pöllänen Markus, Shaw Morgan, Siivonen Katriina, Taylor Amos, Arvonen Anne
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Defining ‘Future Generations’: Epistemic Considerations on Conceptualizing a Future-Oriented Domain in Policy And Law-Making (2023)
- Journal of Futures Studies: Epistemology, Methods, Applied and Alternative Futures
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Flourishing Urban Futures to Overcome Polycrises – Roadmap for Resilience 2050 (2023) Heinonen Sirkka, Maree Burgert, Karjalainen Joni, Sivonen Risto, Taylor Amos, Viitamäki Riku, Pättikangas Paula
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Pitkospuita eteenpäin katsovaan päätöksentekoon: Vihreän, osallistavan, digitaalisen ja kriisinkestävän rakennetun ympäristön tiekartta 2050 (2023) Heinonen Sirkka, Viitamäki Riku, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos, Toivonen Saija, Tähtinen Lassi
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Ennakointi ja tulevat sukupolvet lainvalmistelun prosesseissa, instituutioissa ja käytännöissä (2022) Airos Maija, Ahlqvist Toni, Knudsen Mikkel, Mutanen Anu, Rapeli Lauri, Schauman Jonas, Setälä Maija, Taylor Amos
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Exploring transformative policy imaginaries for a sustainable Post-COVID society (2022)
- Journal of Cleaner Production
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Landscapes of our uncertain futures: Towards mapping and understanding crisis-related concepts and definitions (2022) Heinonen Sirkka, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Mysterious faces of hybridisation: an anticipatory approach for crisis literacy (2022)
- European Journal of Futures Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Strengthening foresight and the role of future generations in Finnish lawmaking (2022) Airos Maija, Ahlqvist Toni, Knudsen Mikkel, Mutanen Anu, Rapeli Lauri, Schauman Jonas, Setälä Maija, Taskinen Mari, Taylor Amos
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Open Biofutures: The Challenge of Maintaining Agency for Long-Term Futures (2021) Bio#Futures: Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy Taylor Amos T., Balcom Raleigh Nicolas A.
(Book chapter (B2)) - Planeetan elinkelpoisuus, biotalous ja oikeudenmukaisuus – hyvän ja pahan tiedon rajat [Planetary Livability, Bioeconomy, and Justice – The Limits of Good and Bad Knowledge, in Finnish] (2021) Hyvä ja paha tieto Häyry Matti, Ahola-Launonen Johanna, Kurki Sofi, Laihonen Maarit, Porttikivi Merja, Raleigh Balcom Nicolas, Taylor Amos, Saarenmaa Liisa, Takala Tuija, Wilenius Markku
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Sensing and making sense of emergent BioEthos using futuring games (2021) Bio#Futures: Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy Balcom Raleigh Nicolas A., Taylor Amos
(Book chapter (B2)) - Tiedolla tulevaisuuteen: Selvitys tutkimuksen, korkeakoulutuksen ja yhteiskunnallisen vuorovaikutuksen tulevaisuuden ilmiöistä ja muutostekijöistä. (2021) Ahvenharju Sanna, Villman Tero, Saarimaa Riikka, Taylor Amos, Suomalainen Kaisa-Maria, Granlund Maria, Sivonen Risto, Witoon Siyada, Nguyen Hoa
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Culture as a Catalyst; Strange Attractors, Canned futures and Post-Pandemic Scenarios (2020)
- Ajatuksia koronan aikaan blogi
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Rethinking Smart City Futures Through Greensight (2020) Ana Jones, Amos Taylor
(Other (O2)) - Turning uncertainty into opportunity: a new way to use-the-future (2020)
- Medium
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Immersive futuring: ghost forests in 2075 (2019)
- Futuuri
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Precursors to a 'Good' Bioeconomy in 2125: Making Sense of Bioeconomy & Justice Horizons. First Foresight Report of the BioEcoJust Project (2019) Amos Taylor, Nicolas A. Balcom Raleigh, Sofi Kurki, Marianna Birmoser Ferreira-Aulu, Markku Wilenius
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Rethinking transformative agency for the bio-society (2019) Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power Amos Taylor
(Other (O2))