Building a desirable future: is it possible to transform a city? How foresight can help building the future by means of collective and participatory training-action intervention

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.3174232418094

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• Keywords: Foresight, Prospective Process, Long-term Planning, Appropriation, Governance, Mineral-based cluster (APL), Agenda 2030, Sustainable City

• Abstract: Cristalina 2040 Project's aims  to build a vision of a desirable and  achievable future, that favors  sustainability in the gem, jewelry, mineral  crafts, and tourism cluster. The applied  foresight methodology allows for long term planning, formulating strategies for  necessary changes and/or disruptions  through renewed management that invests  in people and adapts resources to possible  adversities and/or opportunities that may  arise in the territory or municipality. The  Sustainable Development Goals of the UN  Agenda 2030 have been considered to the  sustainable development of Cristalina.  Important results have been achieved  through the stages developed. They  include transformation of the applied  foresight method into knowledge; co creation of future hypotheses;  construction of desired future with  appropriation of knowledge by civil society  and the creation of actions to make it  feasible; commitment and support of  public authorities; changes in public  policies; implementation of 15.6% of total  77 actions planned for the 2040 horizon, by  August 2021. Despite several challenges in  the Cristalina 2040 project, the true  appropriation of knowledge by society  made it possible and desirable to achieve  the goals set at the beginning of the  project. The economic development that  considers a transversal view of human  beings and the environment seems to  stimulate a systemic and integrated vision.  It has been confirmed that it is possible to  replicate this model in other areas or  municipalities, if society is truly involved,  so that initiatives are resilient resulting in  development, community growth,  strengthening of the economy, and  consequently towards an intelligent,  resilient, and sustainable city.