2025: Futures of Technologies – Mutual Shaping of Socio-Technical Transformations
Futures Conference 2025 focuses on the futures of technologies, their development, importance, role and risks as a driver of social change. What are the effects of social and environmental changes on technological development and vice versa? ‘Futures of Technologies’ is the 25th international Futures Conference of the Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku. It…
2024: Futures of Natural Resources
Virtual Pre-Conference: 4 June 2024 │ Onsite Days: 13–14 June 2024 in Turku, Finland │ ‘Futures of Natural Resources’ is the 24th international Futures Conference of Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku. This year we are excited to be able to organise this event together with Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke),…
2023: Empowering Futures – Long-term Governance, Democracy and Futures Research
14−16 June 2023 │ Turku, Finland │ Online There is an urgent need for long-term futures thinking in order to sustain possibilities for alternative and creative solutions to complex crises and empower futures. For the Futures Conference 2023, we gathered in Turku to discuss about the futures of democracy, trust, power and sustainability, which are tightly…
2022: Planetary Futures of Health and Wellbeing
15–17 June 2022 │ Turku, Finland │ Hybrid The 22nd Futures Conference was organised on the theme of planetary futures of health and wellbeing. Earth’s systems are undergoing drastic transformations due to climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and other human-caused environmental pressures. These changes are expected to introduce profound challenges for people and the rest…
2021: Learning Futures – Futures of Learning
8–9 June 2021, online and live stream from Turku, Finland As we move further into the 21st century, we need to renew our understanding of what it means to learn, teach, and develop new knowledge. Education systems and learning processes for people of all ages are needed to navigate uncertainty, address known problems, identify new…
2019: Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power
12−13 June 2019, Turku, Finland The 20th Futures Conference was organised under the theme ‘Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power’ during 12−13 of June 2019 in Logomo, Turku, Finland. During the two conference day we hosted about 280 participants from 29 different countries and had the most impressive programme containing: 4 keynote speeches,…
2018: Energizing Futures – Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition
13–14 June 2018 in Tampere, Finland The 19th Futures Conference ‘Energizing Futures – Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition’ emphasized opportunities and challenges related to the need for building and critically evaluating capabilities necessary for sustainable futures. To understand the challenges of the ongoing energy transition process, we need multidisciplinary, multi-level and time-variant analysis of…
2017: Futures of a Complex World
12–13 June 2017 in Turku, Finland To understand the challenges of our time, we need systems thinking to grasp the complexity of our world. At its core is to see the inter-relationships rather than linear cause-and-effect chains, and in seeing processes of change rather than snapshots. All futures studies are ultimately connected to a systems…
2015: Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems: Where Futures Research, Education and Action Meet
11−12 June 2015 in Turku, Finland This 17th International Futures Conference was organised by the Finland Futures Research Centre and the Finland Futures Academy in co-operation with World Futures Studies Federation, Otava Folk High School Co-Operative Society, The Finnish Society for Futures Studies and Turku University of Applied Sciences. This conference gathered together 260 participants from 33 different countries. During…
2014: Sustainable Futures in a Changing Climate
11-12 June 2014, Helsinki, Finland How does climate change influence our understanding of the future? How can we contribute to creating desirable but possible futures in the era of climate change? The Finland Futures Research Centre’s 16th Annual International Conference ‘Sustainable Futures in a Changing Climate’ focused on presenting current future-oriented research on different aspects…