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 
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- AI-assisted Real-Time Spatial Delphi : integrating artificial intelligence models for advancing future scenarios analysis (2025)
- Quality and Quantity
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A mindshift towards futures resilience and anticipatory urban governance (2024) Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments : Challenges and solutions for resilient cities Heinonen, Sirkka; Karjalainen, Joni; Taylor, Amos
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Deconstructing Paradoxes Of Work Through CLA : Millennium Project Special Session at FFRC Conference ‘Futures of Natural Resources’, 13 June 2024, Turku, Finland (2024) Heinonen, Sirkka; Ebrahimabadi, Samaneh; Viitamäki, Riku; Taylor, Amos; Pätikangas, Paula; Knudsen, Mikkel; Tähtinen, Lassi
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Miten Suomi selviytyy sitkeistä ympäristökriiseistä? (2024)
- Futuuri
(E1 Popularised article) - Olemisen sijaan tulemisia joksikin – joustavia identiteettejä post-normaalin jälkeisissä outojen maailmojen uudessa normaalissa (kirja-arvio)
(2024) Heinonen, Sirkka; Pättikangas, Paula; Taylor, Amos; Viitamäki, Riku
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - On Futures of Work, AI, and Narratives Roundtable Discussion with Mariana Bozesan, Member of the Club of Rome and Jerome Glenn, Executive Director of the Millennium Project
(Conducted during the FFRC international conference 2024 in Turku on 14th June, video by Amos Taylor, and editing by Osku Haapasaari and Samaneh Ebrahimabadi, Helsinki Office of FFRC. ) (2024) Heinonen, Sirkka; Viitamäki, Riku; Taylor, Amos; Ebrahimabadi, Samaneh
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Reflections on critical uncertainties in biofutures (2024)
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Constructive conversations on resilient urban futures (2023) Heinonen Sirkka, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos, Rashidfarokhi Anahita, Toivonen Saija, Tähtinen Lassi
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - 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
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - 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
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - 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
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Exploring transformative policy imaginaries for a sustainable Post-COVID society (2022)
- Journal of Cleaner Production
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Landscapes of our uncertain futures: Towards mapping and understanding crisis-related concepts and definitions (2022) Heinonen Sirkka, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Mysterious faces of hybridisation: an anticipatory approach for crisis literacy (2022)
- European Journal of Futures Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - 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.
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - 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
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Sensing and making sense of emergent BioEthos using futuring games (2021) Bio#Futures: Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy Balcom Raleigh Nicolas A., Taylor Amos
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
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