Conference Themes

Systematic futures knowledge is useful in, for example, strategic vision and scenario projects. Furthermore, it helps in versatile training and evaluation projects, as well as in active futures shaping and building in different fields of society. This conference tries to achieve better understanding about the forces that drive consumption patterns. It also tries to connect these drivers to the actions that should be noted by business and other stakeholders.

Typical tools used for development in futures studies are foresight systems, as well as futures oriented thinking. Futures studies and foresight are especially useful in long-term planning and in situations where strategic solutions are needed. The objective of this conference is to promote high-quality, futures-oriented research and thinking based on futures studies.

The conference is designed to be an integrative, informative and interpretative conference between academics, public sector and corporate representatives whose chief interest is sustainable development. Besides keynote lectures, sessions include a more traditional conference framework involving workshops, panels, and poster presentations.
 

FORTHCOMING Subgroups

1. The Future of Responsible Consumption:

- Sustainable consumption
- Consumers and changing values
- Environmentally significant consumption
- The globalisation of consumption
- Sustainable food consumption
- The future of the social media
- Communicating corporate social responsibility
- Empowering tomorrow’s consumers
- Innovative education for a sustainable future: Southern perspective
- Consumers of the future

2. Futures Research Methodologies:

- Delphi
- Scenarios
- Futures Research Methods