Amos
Taylor
Project Researcher, Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)
Masters Degrees in Futures Studies, and a second in Audio Visual Media Culture
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Areas of expertise
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.
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,
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
Publications
Open Biofutures: The Challenge of Maintaining Agency for Long-Term Futures (2021)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))Sensing and making sense of emergent BioEthos using futuring games (2021)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))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)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Tiedolla tulevaisuuteen: Selvitys tutkimuksen, korkeakoulutuksen ja yhteiskunnallisen vuorovaikutuksen tulevaisuuden ilmiöistä ja muutostekijöistä. (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Rethinking Smart City Futures Through Greensight (2020)
NordiCHI 2020
(Muu (O2))
Turning uncertainty into opportunity: a new way to use-the-future (2020)
Medium
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Culture as a Catalyst; Strange Attractors, Canned futures and Post-Pandemic Scenarios (2020)
Ajatuksia koronan aikaan blogi
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))