Enabling the City: Learning for Transformational Change

Turning globally conceived agendas local means enabling interconnected and sustainable urban knowledge, and giving voice and legitimacy to a multiplicity of agencies, worldviews, ways of knowing and understanding the problems and the possibility for alternative ways of doing things. In this chapter, the authors reflected on the interconnections between these three policy arenas through the lens of the inter-and transdisciplinary experiments at the local level. They highlighted the strong link between the concept of learning and re-learning how to design and plan cities in a holistic manner, and collaborative and participatory processes entailing inter-and transdisciplinarity. To address the combination of resistance, limited capabilities and inevitable contradictions, inter-and transdisciplinary experiments – the framework as well as the INTREPID journey – call for new educational models and a reprioritising of the kind of knowledge that needs to be taught, away from technical skills towards softer competences and dispositions