AudaCITY: A Capacity-Building Research Method for Urban Sustainability Transformation

The scale and urgency of sustainability problems the world over has led to calls for transformations in cities, regions, countries. Such transformation are underlain by a persistent knowledge-to-action gap between scientific knowledge production, policy, practice. To rise challenges resilience, municipal administrators need set evidence-based ambitious targets develop strategies achieve them. Simultaneously, transdisciplinary science researchers generate further enable cities along pathways transformation. This paper details collaborative backcasting game, AudaCITY, developed build transformative capacity city administrations while also generating deep contextual inform research agenda. We present AudaCITY's key features, potential applications adaptations, exemplary outputs outcomes researchers. conclude with recommendations adopting adapting AudaCITY use action-oriented transformational building.