A PARTICIPATORY SCENARIO BUILDING APPLICATION FOR GREENER, SMARTER, AND HEALTHIER CITIES: THE CASE OF MADRID, SPAIN

Scenario building is a set of methods to explore and anticipate strategic futures when business-as-usual trends are no longer appropriate. This research shows a collaborative scenario building application, using the context of Madrid (Spain) as case study conducted in the frame of the H2020 project ICARUS. The aim of the scenario building approach is to obtain long-term narratives for a greener, healthier, and smarter city by 2050. The future trends were identified in a set of semi-structured interviews followed by a face-to-face workshop to transform such future trends into narratives. Finally, a multi-criteria analysis to prioritize the narratives come up with "the slow city" narrative as the most appropriate by Madrid 2050. The paper shows the methodological process implementation, its appropriateness, and the results.