%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/.