Amos Taylor
Masters Degrees in Futures Studies FM,& MA Audio Visual Media Culture
amos.taylor@utu.fi |
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,
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- AI-assisted Real-Time Spatial Delphi : integrating artificial intelligence models for advancing future scenarios analysis (2025)
- Quality and Quantity
- Exploring Socio-technical Futures of Work : a Narrative-based Foresight Approach : Report of the Millennium Project Session at the Futures of Technologies Conference 2025 (2025) Di Berardo, Mara; Heinonen, Sirkka; Taylor, Amos; Viitamäki, Riku; Virmajoki, Veli
- Teasing Paradoxes to Explore Transformative Futures of Peace (2025)
- Journal of Futures Studies: Epistemology, Methods, Applied and Alternative Futures
- Well-being and everyday shared experiences of beauty in families and communities : Promoting social and aesthetic justice through everyday arts and culture (2025) The Routledge International Handbook of Wellbeing Arts : Arts and Everyday Aesthetics as Positive Psychology Interventions Melo, Ana Teixeira de; Pato de Carvalho, Cláudia Ribeiro; Raquel; Huhmarniemi, Maria; Taylor, Amos; Latvala-Harvilahti, Pauliina; Dragicevic Šešic, Milena; Murphy, Regina; Sarantou, Melanie; Sabiescu, Amalia; Martos. Tamás; Sallay, Viola; Berbel‑Gómez, Noemy; Cabedo‑Mas, Alberto
- When We Work. Delphi Results on Time and Temporality Within Futures of Work (2025)
- Futures & Foresight Science
- 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
- 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
- Miten Suomi selviytyy sitkeistä ympäristökriiseistä? (2024)
- Futuuri
- Olemisen sijaan tulemisia joksikin – joustavia identiteettejä post-normaalin jälkeisissä outojen maailmojen uudessa normaalissa (kirja-arvio)
(2024) Heinonen, Sirkka; Pättikangas, Paula; Taylor, Amos; Viitamäki, Riku - 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 - Reflections on critical uncertainties in biofutures (2024)
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Constructive conversations on resilient urban futures (2023) Heinonen Sirkka, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos, Rashidfarokhi Anahita, Toivonen Saija, Tähtinen Lassi
- 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 - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Exploring transformative policy imaginaries for a sustainable Post-COVID society (2022)
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Landscapes of our uncertain futures: Towards mapping and understanding crisis-related concepts and definitions (2022) Heinonen Sirkka, Karjalainen Joni, Taylor Amos
- Mysterious faces of hybridisation: an anticipatory approach for crisis literacy (2022)
- European Journal of Futures Research
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