24th Futures Conference focused on the futures of sustainable management of natural resources. The event was organised in collaboration with the Natural Resources Institute of Finland (Luke). This special issue of Futuuri includes articles giving insight to the keynote speakers based on their speeches as well as introduces some of the sessions organised during the event.
‘Futures of Natural Resources’ started with an online day on 4 June and then continued fully onsite during 13–14 June in Turku, Finland. We were happy to host 300 participants from 40 different countries, representing all the continents of the world with around 210 visitors onsite and additional 90 participants online.
In this issue:
- What are the Futures of Natural Resources?
- Keynote Speech: Food System Transformation in Times of Permacrisis
- Virtual Workshop: More than Human Future – Creating Non-Human Narratives
- Keynote Speech: Unlocking a Thrivable Future for Humanity – Optimism, Sustainability and Prosperity
- Keynote Speech: Cultural Pathways for Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
- Futures Session: Transformations to Sustainability: Insights from the Futures Research
- Futures Session: Sustainable Land-Use and City Planning
- Futures Workshop: Deconstructing Paradoxes of Work via Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
- Keynote Speech: Futures Beyond Consumption?
- Futures Workshop: Co-creating a Futures Literacy Game Concept
- Book Launch Session: Our World of Futures Studies as a Mosaic
- Keynote Speech: Green Horizons: Navigating Sustainable Futures with Forest-Based Bioeconomy Roadmaps
- Welcome to Futures Conference 2025: Futures of Technologies, 10–12 June 2025, Turku, Finland
- Next Application Period for Pentti Malaska Futures Award
- New Adjunct Professor in Futures Research
- Are You the Next Expert of the Futures? Study Futures Studies
- FFRC Staff's Latest Publications
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Futuuri is the FFRC’s newsletter, published three times a year. Except for this special conference issue, Futuuri is usually published in Finnish. Read more and join the mailing list.