Amos Taylor
Masters Degrees in Futures Studies FM,& MA Audio Visual Media Culture
amos.taylor@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7193-3858 |
Future generations, anticipatory governance, participatory futures methods, creativity and culture, foresight development, futures literacy. Media Culture, design.
Tulevaisuustislaamo │ Futures Distillery is part of the Research infrastructures of the University of Turku.- https://tulevaisuustislaamo.fi/
Amos Taylor is a futures researcher who has worked on multiple foresight projects for the past 9+ years at Finland Futures Research Centre. His expertise is on participatory and creative based methods in futures studies on research themes of crisis, uncertainty and transformative policy imaginaries. He has designed and facilitated countless futures workshops and Delphi studies. He has published widely on topics connected with future uncertainties.
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
- 2020-2021 FlxDeep EIT
- 2017-2020: BioEcoJust Bioeconomy and Justice. (bioecojust.utu.fi). Academy of Finland
Masters degree programme in Futures Studies course: Participatory Scenario Planning Laboratory, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
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,
- 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) - 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)
