Publications for the conference have been published: Vehmas. Jarmo & Saarimaa, Riikka (editors) (2019) Energizing Futures − Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition. Proceedings of the Futures Conference 2018. FFRC eBooks 6/2019, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. 143 p. ISBN 978-952-249-525-9, ISSN 1797-1322. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-249-525-9 SpringerOpen has published a thematic collection based on the 19th Futures Conference in…
Welcome to Our Next Futures Conference!
The forthcoming Futures Conference 2019 will focus on the concept of agency in action and research for futures. ‘Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power’ emphasizes opportunities and challenges related to the need for building and critically evaluating capabilities necessary for sustainable futures. The conference invites participants to think of agency in different levels…
Presentations & Photos
Presentations and photos are now available. Presentations are in pdf format from those authors who gave us permission to publish and share their material. We have also created a photo gallery. Please, have a look. Thank you for your feedback to improve our future conferences. If you have not yet answered to our questionnaire, please…
Results of the Future Reinvented WS
Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington and Helena Calle from Fast Future explored four different scenarios for our energy supply. The scenarios draw in particular on how global societies might be powered in the decades to come. Scenarios were designed and facilitated at the Futures Conference’s “The Future Reinvented: Radical Energy Solutions. An Interactive Scenario & Storytelling…
Results of the Special Millennium WS
New great electrification as Cultural Transformation for post-oil era – Everybody on board! was a Special Millennium Project Workshop organized in Tampere June 14, 2018, as part of the conference “Energizing Futures – Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition”. The session was planned and organised together with and for Finland Futures Academy (FFA). Keynote speech…
Thank you!
We would like to thank you all for the wonderful “Energizing Futures” -conference that we all created together during these days. Within two weeks you will find presentations of those authors that gave us permission to share their material on the conference webpages. There will also be a picture gallery where you can see some…
Conference application is available
This year we are limiting the amount of paper being used for programs, the book of abstract and other publications, so we have proudly put together an application that can be downloaded. You can view the application also with your laptop: https://m.eventos.fi/mobi/ PIN code: 1587 The application contains information regarding each workshop session, including; locations, schedules…
Special Millennium Project Workshop
Join this co-creative and electrifying Special Millennium Project Session to probe the concrete possibilities for making visionary change happen around the world! By 2050 energy will be emission free, almost entirely renewable, and used much more efficiently than today. We will thereby have a wealth of inexpensive, clean energy in use. An internet of energy…
Workshop Programme is published
Please find the detailed workshop programme and all the abstracts of the presentations on-line at WORKSHOPS section.
Post-conference half-day workshop: “The Future of Futures Literacy in Finland”, 15 June 2018
Welcome to a post-conference half-day workshop THE FUTURE OF FUTURES LITERACY IN FINLAND A Management of Social Transformation Futures Literacy Laboratory 15 June 2018 at 9.00-12.30 Venue: Finnish National Agency for Education, Hakaniemenranta 6, Helsinki Futures literacy is an increasingly valuable skill for people living in our complex and dynamic world. This capacity to observe and…
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