Roope Mokka is a futurist and urbanist with a focus on social transformations. He has over 20 years of international experience as a strategic level advisor working with central and regional governments, cities, corporations, startups, NGOs and festivals.
10 years ago he founded Demos Helsinki with Aleksi Neuvonen as an independent think tank. Before that Roope worked as a design researcher, technology analyst, publisher, journalist, DJ, and promoter.
He has studied social sciences and humanities at London Schoool of Economics and at the Universities of Helsinki, Leicester and Bristol. In his spare time, Roope rests, dances and follows his intuition.
Roope has written about the future extensively and has been a columnist at Yleisradio (national public broadcaster of Finland) since 2016.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward
More about Roope
Linkedin: Roope Mokka
References
Design fiction http://fmh.uiah.fi/projects/audioFuturo/
Demos Helsinki https://www.demoshelsinki.fi/
Pro Am revolution https://www.demos.co.uk/files/proamrevolutionfinal.pdf
Open Source Democracy https://www.demos.co.uk/files/OpenSourceDemocracy.pdf
Demos Helsinki impact hypothesis https://www.demoshelsinki.fi/2020/11/19/demos-helsinki-impact-model-2/
Untitled https://untitled.community/
Bodytalk (combining rave and foresight) https://www.togetheralonefi.com/round-i-selected-projects/bodytalk
Dewey on the idea of democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_and_its_Problems