Signals of sustainability transition: Sensing enabling factors through cultural initiatives

Abstract This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on cultural initiatives six European Cities, study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses about their contribution inception rooting dynamics. As result, proposes set analytical categories enabling acting across niches regimes. The same are reinterpreted by referring scaling ( up , out deep ). proposed scheme seeks offer broader reflection conceptual methodological challenges related sensing interpreting urban pathways.