About this publication
Empowering Transformative Urban Futures: Implementing Urban Transformative Capacity in Public Administration
TANGO-W project
TANGO-W is an applied research project that uses Urban Transformative Capacities (UTC) at the interface of the food-energy-water nexus to tackle challenges associated with climate change and to encourage sustainable urban development.
The energy-food-water nexus is a field of research that investigates the synergies and conflicts of the production, consumption, and scarcity of food, energy, and water systems. TANGO-W proposes tackling these challenges by using the concept of UTC. It encompasses the collective ability of all actors in an urban innovation ecosystem to conceive of, prepare for, initiate, and perform transformative change at social, organisational and ecosystem levels, thus enabling sustainable future development.
The TANGO-W project focuses on two levels of capacity building: the urban level, through the design and implementation of Urban Living Labs (ULL), and the European level, through establishing a transdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) as an integrative coordinating transformation system. Both levels provide spaces for the development of UTC, thereby accelerating urban change in a sustainable direction. The project will result in policy recommendations for replication, training concepts, and pilot courses that support capacity building in the ULL cities — Weiz, Kalgenfurt, Stockholm, Norrtälje, Alytus, Halden, and Marker.
