Futures Conference 2026: Sustainability, Temporalities and Futures, 9−10 June 2026
The upcoming Futures Conference 2026 will focus on the critical theme of the sustainability transformation. This shift has the potential to renew the societal and economic structures and practices, while also enhancing human well-being and quality of life.
The conference’s sub-themes will explore the transformation from multiple perspectives: everyday life and cultural change, planetary well-being and health, production and consumption in service of sustainability, governance, justice and political structures, as well as the role of humans, culture, and the building of a sustainable society. The conference also highlights the importance of temporality. How can geological time perspectives, historical understanding, and futures thinking together guide us toward more sustainable directions?
This event is the 26th international Futures Conference of Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku. This time we are excited to be able to organise the event together with the Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Pilot (SusTra). SusTra is implemented jointly by ten Finnish universities and the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), training 40 doctoral graduates in 2025–2027.
The conference’s sub-themes will explore the transformation from multiple perspectives: everyday life and cultural change, planetary well-being and health, production and consumption in service of sustainability, governance, justice and political structures, as well as the role of humans, culture, and the building of a sustainable society. The conference also highlights the importance of temporality. How can geological time perspectives, historical understanding, and futures thinking together guide us toward more sustainable directions?
This event is the 26th international Futures Conference of Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku. This time we are excited to be able to organise the event together with the Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Pilot (SusTra). SusTra is implemented jointly by ten Finnish universities and the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke), training 40 doctoral graduates in 2025–2027.