We have been invited by Nick from Turku University, a long time partner through CKIC’s Long-termism alliance, to participate to the Planetary Futures of Health and Wellbeing conference organised by the Finland Futures Research Centre. It is “one of the top futures studies annual conferences”.
Dates: 15–17 June 2022 in Turku, Finland and online.
This year their UNESCO Chair on Learning for Transformation and Planetary Futures has strongly influenced the topic, along with an ongoing internal project about promoting active mobility in urban spaces to support public health benefits and sustainability targets.
There is a call for papers but we received it a bit too late, perhaps - the deadline is Monday, 31 January. It is also a bit too far fetched for what we are doing, but naturally Witness comes to mind. Also @alberto, @matteo_uguzzoni - could this be a good place to play with COESO while working on it ?
The call for papers is introduced like this:
Earth’s systems are undergoing drastic transformations due to climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and other human-caused environmental pressures. These changes are expected to introduce profound challenges for people and the rest of Earth’s life over the coming decades as various planetary system limits are crossed. Futures conference 2022 focuses on the wide variety of ways people imagine planetary futures to inform their ambitions to produce general health and wellbeing in our societies.
This conference explores questions such as: How can people today identify new pathways for fostering the conditions and behaviours that allow human and non-human life to thrive? How can health and wellbeing for humans and other species be supported at planetary scale? What structures and actions are needed to produce a sufficient level of human wellbeing at the global level to improve our socio-ecological resilience?’
