SESSION 4.
Research Tools I: Backcasting
Introduction to backcasting
Aleksi Neuvonen
Whose future? Organizing a series of theme-based normative backcasting workshops to construct coherent scenarios: Methodology description and critical analysis
Johannes Koponen, Marjukka Parkkinen, Satu Korhonen, Juha Leppänen, Veikka Lahtinen, Maari Parkkinen & Iris Sandelin
Backcasting – a Counting Backwards Workshop
Aleksi Neuvonen & Johannes Koponen
Research Tools II & III: Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
Introduction to CLA and the game [slides forthcoming]
Sohail Inayatullah
A CLA game on neo-carbon energy scenarios in action learning
Sohail Inayatullah, Matti Minkkinen & Sirkka Heinonen
Practical guide to using causal layered analysis in qualitative futures studies
Matti Minkkinen & Petri Tapio
SESSION 5.
Education and Learning I: Future orientation
Critically reflexive practice in the present as learning for the future
Marise Lehto
Tackle the grand societal challenges: Advanced course for prototype the future
Christianne Heselmans & Linda Hofman
Prevention of early dropouts in vocational education
Juhani Pirttiniemi, Marika Koramo & Mikko Hytönen
Education and Learning II & III: Developing visionaries and future thinkers
Introduction to the session theme ‘Developing Visionaries and Future Thinkers’
Leon D. Young
Scenarios as narratives of reactive sequences: Lessons from historical social science
Matti Minkkinen
Designing future scenarios: Approaches and positioning of scenario building into the design process
Danila Zindato
The questioning futurologist and the wondering philosopher: A Viennese coffee house performance
Lisa Szugfil & Michael Berger
SESSION 6.
Philosophy of Futures Studies
Futures studies as science: The value problem in the thinking of Ossip K. Flechtheim
Burkhard Auffermann
WTF: What The Future?
Marko Ahvenainen & Sari Söderlund
Futures studies and breakthrough thinking
Yuko Aoyama & Kazutaka Kitamori
SESSION 7.
Arts as Means to Shape the Futures I, II & III
Artistic interventions in organisations
Kai Lehikoinen
Scenario gaming: An interactive workshop
Cornelia Daheim & Hazel Salminen
SESSION 8.
Information Technology and Disruptive Innovations: A wicked yet empowering combination Innovation I & II
Broadening code literacy education through metaphors of code
Tomi Dufva & Mikko Dufva
The Futures of artificial companions: Scenarios of human-artificial companions relationship
Huai-Yao Chiu & Mei-Mei Song
Wicked yet empowering: When disruptive innovation and information technology meet
Abayomi Baiyere
Money as the ontological design of socioeconomic realities and set of rules for future scenarios
Daniel Schimmelpfennig
IT innovations
Tuomas Nurmela
SESSION 9.
The Impact of Foresight Studies: The Role of Dark Scenarios
RACE2050 or A Past Rich with Future (for the European Transport Industry)
Massimo Moraglio
What’s to be done with it? Dealing with scenarios in social sciences
Roman Peperhove & Julia Drews
Dark Scenarios like in science fiction: The FESTOS experience
Karlheinz Steinmüller
The focus EU security foresight project, its embedded scenario method, and bright and dark EU security roles in a horizon 2035
Alexander Siedschlag