%0 Journal Article %@ 2632-6655 %A Comelli, Thaisa %A Pelling, Mark %A Hope, Max %A Ensor, Jonathan %A Filippi, Maria Evangelina %A Menteşe, Emin Yahya %A McCloskey, John %D 2024 %F discovery:10190318 %I Ubiquity Press, Ltd. %J Buildings and Cities %K Adaptation; cities; critical pedagogies; future visioning; normative; urban climate action; urban planning %N 1 %P 83-100 %T Normative future visioning: a critical pedagogy for transformative adaptation %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190318/ %V 5 %X Normative future visioning (NFV) offers a critical approach that can respond to the challenges of transformative adaptation. In the context of climate crisis, an understanding of the diversity of desired end-states and pathways for good urban futures is fundamental to fostering cooperation and inspiring purposeful action that can challenge and transform unsustainable processes and behaviours, and researching these processes. This paper contributes to transformative adaptation and climate resilient development by conceptualising NFV as a critical pedagogy. This framing understands NFV as a collective learning experience that can lead to emancipation and transformative action. A novel Encounter–Change Framework is proposed as a general mechanism for evaluating NFV methods. The framework is tested through the Tomorrow’s Cities project across its NFV deployment in nine cities: Quito, Istanbul, Nairobi, Kathmandu, Rapti, Nablus, Dar es Salaam, Cox’s Bazar and Chattogram. General lessons highlight the importance for NFV evaluation of analysing both methodological detail and its positioning within wider policy and planning processes. Detailed empirical findings reveal key lessons and challenges that emerge from practice – related to time, ethics, co-production, diversity, consensus, equity and authorship. These inform both NFV and other participatory experiences that aim at transformation. %Z Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See: http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/.