Envisioning/visioning is considered to be an essential part of futures studies methodology. Though unlike
scenario building, the methods of envisioning are hardly known amongst
researchers and even experts. This evidence was the decisive factor for us that
the 2002 summer seminar was to discuss the methods of envisioning. The Vision
Week June 2002 was the fourth international seminar in succession organised by
the Finland Futures Research Centre. Apart from the two-day Vision Seminar, the
Finland Futures Research Centre, together with the Finland Futures Aca
demy,
offered a two-day Summer School in Turku dealing with the same topic.
Target
people for the Vision Seminar were scientists of different faculties, futures
practitioners, people from the public and private sector as well as graduate and
post-graduate students.
The subsequent Vision Summer School was aimed at graduate and post-graduate students, however, anybody interested in
getting deeper understanding of what is behind the methods of envisioning was
welcome.
The Vision Week gathered together nearly hundred
participants from Finland and other countries like Sweden, UK, USA, Italy,
Germany and Spain.
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
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08.30-09.30 |
Registration for the seminar at Turku
School of Economics, Rehtorinpellonkatu 3, 20500 Turku |
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09.30-09.45 |
Opening of the seminar by Rector Tapio
Reponen and Director Matti Kamppinen |
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09.45-10.30 |
Plenary I: Visioning a Better World
(Federico Mayor, Spain) |
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10.30-10.50 |
Coffee break |
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10.50-11.30 |
Plenary II: Ethical Considerations in
Visions (Jerome Glenn, USA) |
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11.30-12.10 |
Plenary III: Visions in/for the Network
Society (Lars Rydén, Sweden) |
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12.10-12.30 |
Discussion |
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30-14.10 |
Plenary IV: Utopian and Dystopian
Visions (Pentti Malaska, Finland) |
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14.15-15.00 |
Workshop I: Visions of
Technology and Society
Chair Jerome Glenn (USA)
Presentations: Osmo Kuusi (Finland), Kerstin Cuhls (Germany), Jerome
Glenn (USA) |
Workshop II: Visions of Future
Education
Chair Sari Söderlund (Finland)
Presenters: Hanna-Kaisa Aalto (Finland), Matti Ruippo (Finland),
Pekka Kess (Finland), Sari Söderlund (Finland), Anita Rubin
(Finland), Marja Kallonen-Rönkkö
(Finland) |
Workshop III: Visions of Regional
Development
Chair Jari Kaivo-oja (Finland)
Presenters: Jouni Marttinen (Finland), Tamás Gáspár/Réka Várnagy (Hungary),
Ilari Karppi (Finland) |
Workshop IV: Visionary Thinking/Visionary
Leadership
Chairs Markku Wilenius (Finland) and Mika Aaltonen (Finland) |
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15.00-15.30 |
Coffee break |
|
15.30-17.00 |
Workshops I - IV continue |
|
17.00-17.15 |
Closing of the first seminar day |
|
18.30- |
Evening event in a villa near Turku |
|
23.30 |
Return to the hotels |
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
|
09.30-10.30 |
Workshop V: Visions of Environment and
Sustainable Development
Chair Petri Tapio (Finland)
Workshop is held as a workshop in its original sense, without
presenters as such. |
Workshop VI: Visions of Work
and Entrepreneurship
Chair Ted Fuller (UK)
Presenters: Ted Fuller (UK), Tim Brundle (UK) |
Workshop VII: Visions of Time
Chairs Matti Kamppinen and Mikko Jalas (Finland) |
|
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee break |
|
11.00-12.15 |
Workshops V - VII continue |
|
12.15-13.15 |
Lunch |
|
13.15-14.00 |
Plenary V: Visions of Cultures (Eleonora
Masini, Italy) |
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14.00-14.45 |
Plenary VI: The World 2002-2012: Ten
Years, Ten Problems, Ten Decisions (Igor Bestuzhev-Lada, Russia) |
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14.45-15.15 |
Coffee break |
|
15.15-16.15 |
Panel discussion: Is it possible to have
common visions? |
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16.15-16.30 |
Final discussion |
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16.30 |
Closing of the seminar |