NODUS TALKS: Sufficiency-based Futures in Finland
When:
20.11.2025 16:15 – 17:45
Where:
Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki
Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki
Registration period:
31.10.2025 - 20.11.2025 16:00
Event language(s):
English
Seona CANDY is a Senior Researcher at Demos Helsinki, where she leads work on socio-ecological justice and just transitions. Through the SRC-funded SISU project, she explores how societies can live well within ecological limits by applying the principle of sufficiency—designing systems around “enough” rather than “more.” In her talk, Seona delves into what sufficiency means, why it matters, and how we might envision macro-level sufficiency strategies for welfare states built on economic growth. She also shares insights from recent research on how the idea of sufficiency is gaining traction with Finnish sustainability and welfare professionals — but also what is holding it back.
Taina DE CARVALHO is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. Her work explores the cultural and existential dimensions of sustainability, focusing on sufficiency, well-being, and arts-based practices. She is also a trained artist and cultural wellbeing expert. In her talk, she explores sufficiency not simply as reducing consumption, but as a cultural and existential reorientation — a way of reimagining what it means to live well within planetary boundaries. Drawing from arts-based and interdisciplinary perspectives, she highlights how the arts overall can foster new values, desires, and forms of collective well-being.
The event is free, but please register as seats are limited.