Amos Taylor

Amos Taylor (MA) is a Creative Futurist and Futures Researcher.

He has been for nearly 10 years a project-Researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre, university of Turku. He has worked on numerous challinging research projects. His work has covered topics of crisis and resilience, ethical approaches to futures, future generations and foresight, anticipatory governance, future imaginaries, and facilitating strategic foresight. He specialises in developing highly participatory and creative approaches to explore open alternative futures. He has taught and lectured on strategic foresight, scenario building, causal layered analysis and Delphi as well as media culture related subjects. He has a multidisciplinary background with two master's degrees in Futures Studies from the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku and in Audiovisual Media Culture from the University of Lapland; which build on his previous undergraduate studies in design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.

Understanding future opportunities and strategic pathways is a common goal for organisations and institutions alike. Using a structured foresight process, creating for example scenarios and futures workshops that help large corporations, high-performing SMEs, associations and public institutions manage disruptive change and shape their future with foresight. This is intellectually stimulating, and combines analytical rigour with creative vision. On the other hand experiencing the future needs to be done in novel creative ways, and engaging critical uncertanties provides essential discussion and opens key questions.

As a researcher I have been lucky to learn from a dynamic team with the goal of pushing the development of futures research. Typically to analyse trends, identify key uncertainties of the future, explore scenarios in a participatory way and destil recommendations for action to form strategic paths into the future. Does this sound like somethign you would be interested in? please contact.