
Frontiers in Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5
Published: Aug. 29, 2024
Envisioning trajectories towards sustainability encompasses enacting significant changes in multiple spheres (i.e., infrastructure, policy, practices, behaviors). These unfold within the intricate landscapes of wicked problems, where diverse perspectives and potential solutions intersect often clash. Advancing more equitable sustainable demands recognition collaboration with voices to uncover meaningful synergies among groups striving catalyze substantial change. Projects this nature necessitate exploration varied tools methodologies elicit, convey, integrate ideas effectively. Creating spaces for reflexivity is essential catalyzing impact as individuals engage discussions aimed at sharing questioning coherence their projects while forging synergies, identifying common objectives, planning long-term outcomes. We present initial phase an endeavor which we developed a software that elicits causal networks based on mapping relations between projects’ actions To illustrate our approach, describe results using collaborative workshops spearheading initiated by government entity Mexico City. By adapting elements Theory Change model, transcends dominant linear project logic guiding participants designing causation unveil how different can articulate identify find new possibilities coordination initiatives. discuss such application dynamic tool guide promote reflection when crafting aim meaningfully address problems.
Language: Английский