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
- 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
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Culture as a Catalyst; Strange Attractors, Canned futures and Post-Pandemic Scenarios (2020)
- Ajatuksia koronan aikaan blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - Rethinking Smart City Futures Through Greensight (2020) Ana Jones, Amos Taylor
(Other publication) - Turning uncertainty into opportunity: a new way to use-the-future (2020)
- Medium
(E1 Popularised article) - Immersive futuring: ghost forests in 2075 (2019)
- Futuuri
(E1 Popularised article) - 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
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Rethinking transformative agency for the bio-society (2019) Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power Amos Taylor
(Other publication) - Scenario Adaptation for Creative and Transformative Innovation (2019) Amos Taylor
(G2 Master’s thesis, polytechnic Master’s thesis) - Workshop: role-based game on bioeconomy and justice year 2125
(Futures Conferencen 2019 abstrakti) (2019) Constructing Social Futures: Book of Abstracts Amos Taylor, Sofi Kurki, Noora Vähäkari
(Other publication) - BioEcoJust Open Horizon Scanning #2 (2018)
- Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - Collision Points among Bioeconomy Worlds, Toward Year 2125 (2018) FTA2018 - Future in the making Nicolas A. Balcom-Raleigh, Amos Taylor, Markku Wilenius
(D3 Article in a professional conference publication) - Launch of BioEcoJust Open Horizon Scanning (2018)
- Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - How To Wake A Sleeping Finnish Forest Giant: Perspectives On the Finnish Bioeconomy (2017) The Emergence of Bio-Economy: Opportunities and Risks: A Forward-Looking Study Amos Taylor
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Surprising Energy Futures. Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique V (2017) Sirkka Heinonen, Joni Karjalainen, Marjukka Parkkinen, Juho Ruotsalainen, Sofia Zavialova, Sofi Kurki, Leena-Maija Laurén, Hazel Salminen, Amos Taylor
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Highlighting Media & Journalism Futures 2030 - Survey on Weak Signals and Emerging Issues (2015) Amos Taylor, Sirkka Heinonen, Juho Ruotsalainen, Marjukka Parkkinen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Beware of the Used Futures – Sohail Inayatullah Highlighting the Best Foresight Practices (2014) Special Conference Edition of the Finland Futures Research Centre’s Newsletter Leponiemi Lauri, Taylor Amos, Heinonen Sirkka
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - Authorship and the Avant-Garde: A Fluxus Approach. (2008) TEKIJYYDEN ULOTTUVUUKSIA Amos Taylor,
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - “Nettitaide: Taidetta Netissä,” (2003) Verkkografiikka Amos Taylor
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)