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Transitioning to water sensitive cities (WSCs) in Australia is necessary for creating urban areas that are resilient to natural disasters, water shortages and climate change. In this paper we report research to enable systemic-transformations praxis. We brought together water practitioners from various sectors for a number of systemic inquiry events across five Australian cities to understand what was required to begin a transition to WSCs. Using an approach influenced by systemic innovation, we designed an inquiry-based learning system. Our learning system design made scientific knowledge available for interpretation, internalisation and contestation, by practitioners in different contexts. The workshops led to identification of characteristics of WSCs; relevant issues and opportunities; and commitments and constraints to action constituting a baseline data set for future evaluation of progress. Transitioning to WSCs requires leadership, a supportive institutional-sectoral environment, practical implementation of technologies in social contexts and increased collaboration involving knowledge co-production across disciplines and sectors. Systemic inquiry methods lend themselves to revealing the socially constructed nature of urban water as hybrids of the technical, natural and social. Despite some limitations, our approach enhanced institutional innovation and investment and offers insights into future research and planning for enabling systemic-transformations praxis in multiple sectors and contexts.

Characterising water sensitive cities through inquiry-based learning systems