Publications

A curated selection of publications, keynotes and other contributions spanning futures literacy, sustainability, transformation, innovation and collective learning. Together they represent more than 70 academic, professional and public-facing outputs. Some contributions are available only in Finnish.

Featured Themes

Imagination, Ethics and Wisdom
Futures Literacy and Anticipatory Capacities
Planetary Wellbeing and Societal Transformation
Editorial Leadership and Curated Conversations
Public Engagement and Futures Dialogues
Innovation, Ecosystems and Value Co-Creation

Imagination, Ethics and Wisdom

ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Vigren Minna (2024). Methods to imagine transformative futures. Futures 157, 103341 – The article introduces a framework for assessing how different methods support the imagination of transformative futures, and where current approaches fall short.

ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Shkreli Etrit (2025). Cultivating futures wisdom for collective transformation. Earth Stewardship 2(3).
ESSAY | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Wikström Tiina (2025). Rebellious girls needed – the urgency to imagine more feminist futures. Journal of Futures Studies. Perspectives.
ARTICLE | Vigren, Minna & Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna (2024). Kuvittelu transformatiivisia tulevaisuuksia rakentamassa. Futura 2/24.
WEBINAR | Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna (6.11.2024). The challenge of imaging transformative futures. In Re-imagining planetary sustainable wellbeing, organised by Laurea / ETAPLATE and Inner Development Goals Research hub on Re-imagining planetary sustainable futures. (Together with Vanessa Taveras-Dalmau from Griffith University/Australia, talking about how to explore our inner world in the regenerative paradigm shift.)

Futures Literacy and Anticipatory Capacities

ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna (2020). Developing organisational futures orientation – A single case study exploring and conceptualising the transformation process in practice, In D. Ehls, A. Gordon, C. Herstatt and R. Rohrbeck, “Guest Editorial: Foresight In Strategy and Innovation Management”, IEE Transaction on Engineering Management, 69, (2), 537-550, April 2020. – A pioneering study of developing organisational futures orientation from within, drawing on experiences as a futurist-in-residence and resulting in a six-step process model for building futures capacity.

KEYNOTE 8.5.2026 | Learning the Future: Futures Literacy’s a Skill for the Next Generation. In Interactive Policy Lab / Workshop “Diplomatic Foresight: Anticipating Change in an Age of Uncertainties”, held by Ministry of Foresight Affairs and Foreign Trade in North Macedonia, Diplomatic Club Skopje, and University of American College Skopje.
TEACHING MATERIAL | Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna (2025). InCITIES Training Course. Trailblazing Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Cities, HORIZON-CSA, 101071330. – An online guide connecting Laurea’s Learning by Developing (LbD) model with futures-oriented learning and the Six Pillars of Futures Thinking for Transforming.
REPORT | Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna. Lessons learned and outlook. InCITIES. Report for European Commission, Horizon Widera. September 2025
ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna, Pura Minna & Kivelä Susanna (2024). Avoin ambidekstrisyys: avain tulevaisuustietoisuuteen. Futura 1/2024.
ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Pura Minna (2024). Tulevaisuustietoisuus kestävyysajattelun edellytyksenä. Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulun kestävän kehityksen teemajulkaisu.
PODCAST | Puhetta ennakoinnista: Miten ennakointiin kannattaa tarttua pk-yrityksissä? VALUE. Vantaan alueellinen ennakointimalli. Laurea RDI, lokakuu 2024. (Haastattelijana Jukka Laitinen).

Planetary Wellbeing and Societal Transformation

ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Shkreli Etrit (2025). Cultivating futures wisdom for collective transformation. Earth Stewardship 2(3). – The article argues for a shift from control to relationship, positioning futures wisdom as a form of stewardship that enables more anticipatory, ethical and co-creative engagement with the future.

REPORT | Tetri Birgitta, Tahvanainen Laura, Ketonen-Oksi Sanna, Nikula Karoliina, Wikström Tiina, Suomala Jyrki, Kuula Maria & Ahonen Outi (2025). ETAPLATE – Monitieteisen ja monitoimijaisen transatlanttisen ekosysteemiverkoston kehittäminen planetaarisen terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin edistämiseksi. Laurea Long.
ARTICLE | Laurila-Rintaniemi Aija & Ketonen-Oksi Sanna (2024). Kohti planetaarisesti kestävää kansalaisuutta näkökulmana henkilöstön osaamisen kehittäminen. Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulun kestävän kehityksen teemajulkaisu.
SHORT STORY | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna (2024). Adding fuel to the fire is not an answer. In ECOFASCISM: incoming monster or lifejacket of humankind? www.oneday2050.org/ecof
WEBINAR | Discussing the role of indigenous women in inspiring and challenging planetary sustainable futures thinking. Eleonora Barbieri Masini Seminar. World Futures Studies Federation side-event (24.10.2023).
PODCAST | Voiko kasvu olla kestävää? Yhtenä vieraana Espoon kaupungin Kasvu & Kipu -podcastissa. Aatu Veikkola & Harri Paananen, 21.4.2023. Supla tai Spotify
ARTICLE | Laisi Jaana, Grotenfelt-Enegren Mikaela, Helenius Leena, Kaikko Anni, Wikström Tiina & Ketonen-Oksi Sanna (2022). Millaisin hyvinvointikäsittein kestävää tulevaisuutta rakennetaan? – Katsaus ympäristöä ja terveyttä yhdistäviin käsitteisiin. Futura 3/22, 47-54.

Editorial Leadership and Curated Conversations

EDITORIAL BOARD | World Futures Review special issue on Global South (forthcoming in 2027)
GUEST EDITOR | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna, Halonen Minna & Minkkinen Matti (toim.). Transformatiivinen tulevaisuustyö. Futura 2/24.
GUEST EDITOR | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Salminen Hazel (toim.)(2022). Unohdetut tulevaisuudet, sivuutetut äänet. Futura 3/22.
GUEST EDITOR | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Viherä Marja-Liisa (toim.). PK-yritysten tulevaisuuskestävyys. Futura 2/21.
EDITORIAL BOARD | Futura, the Finnish journal of Futures Studies, since 2021.

Public Engagement and Futures Dialogues

KEYNOTE 8.5.2026 | Learning the Future: Futures Literacy for the Next Generation, In Interactive Policy Lab / Workshop for “Diplomatic Foresight: Anticipating Change in an Age of Uncertainties”, organised by Ministry of Foresight Affairs and Foreign Trade in North Macedonia and Diplomatic Club Skopje, and University of American College Skopje – A strong invitation to see Futures Literacy not only as a capability for understanding uncertainty, but as a moral practice of responsibility, care and conscious engagement with the future.

KEYNOTE 26.1.2026 | Hope, Resilience and Agency at the time of monsters. Laurea International week. – A reflection on why hope is not a feeling but a practice: a keynote on decolonisation, agency and responsibility in times of uncertainty.

KEYNOTE 5.1.2024 | Mitä jokaisen tulisi tietää ennakoinnista ja tulevaisuusajattelusta? Satakunnan ammattikorkeakoulu, pedagogisen lukuvuoden aloitus.
PODCAST | Yhdessäluova tulevaisuusmuotoilu. Aamukahvikeskustelu Maria Joutsenvirran & Silja Huttusen vieraana osana webinaarisarjaa “Yhteisöllinen toiminta ja kestävä tulevaisuus – Planetaarisen ajattelun voima”. Itä-Suomen yliopisto, OKKA-säätiö ja Vapaa Sivistystyö ry. 4.12.2024.
KEYNOTE 2.11.2023 | Ennakointi. Tulevaisuusajattelu. Strategiatyö. Arene, opetusvararehtorien tapaaminen Metropolia-ammattikorkeakoululla, Helsinki.
KEYNOTE 6.11.2024 | The challenge of imaging transformative futures. Keynote Webinar on Re-imagining planetary sustainable wellbeing. Organised by Laurea / ETAPLATE and IDG Research hub on Re-imagining planetary sustainable futures. (The recording also includes a very interesting talk from Vanessa Taveras-Dalmau from Griffith University / Australia, on Exploring our inner world in the regenerative paradigm shift)
KEYNOTE 28.9.2023 | Tulevaisuuskestävyys – mitä se on ja miten sitä voi edistää? Muutoksen voima -yritystapahtuma Vantaan Heurekassa.

Innovation, Ecosystems and Value Co-Creation

ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna & Valkokari Katri. Innovation ecosystems as structures for value co-creation. TIM Review, Feb 2019. – The article argues that innovation ecosystems should be understood not as networks of organisations, but as structures that enable value co-creation among multiple actors.

REPORT | Pallasaho Jarkko, Ketonen-Oksi Sanna, Wikman Millariia, Kolehmainen Katja & Mattila Jenni (2020). Suomen tulevaisuuden kasvumahdollisuuksien tarkastelu. Kasvuportfolio 2.0. Hankkeen loppuraportti työ- ja elinkeinoministeriölle. Talent Vectia Oy. – Together with Millariia Wikman, I co-designed a national foresight process involving around 400 experts to identify Finland’s most promising future growth opportunities.

BLOG | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna (marraskuu 2020). Kohti pitkäjänteistä, systemaattista ennakointia ekosysteemisessä yhteistyössä. Tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seura ry.
ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi, Sanna (2022). The use of causal layered analysis to explore ecosystem level value cocreation. In Inayatullah Sohail, Mercer Ralph, Milojevic Ivana & Sweeney, John A. (Eds.) 2022. CLA 3.0. Thirty Years of Transformative and Critical Futures Research. Tamkang University Press. (The first version of the article was published in European Journal of Futures Research in 2018).
ARTICLE | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna, Jussila Jari & Kärkkäinen Hannu (2016): Social Media Based Value Creation and Business Models. Industrial Management & Data Systems, 116 (8): 1820–1838.
DISSERTATION | Ketonen-Oksi Sanna (2019). The role of social media in value concretion and innovation in service ecosystems. Doctoral dissertation. Tampere University of Technology.

You can also find some of my publications at Academia.edu or ResearchGate.net. If you are looking for a complete academic CV and publication list, feel free to contact me.