Roadmapping for Sustainability; How to Navigate a Social, Political, and Many Systems-of-Systems Playing Field? A Local Initiative

The United Nations have defined 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). These goals cascade down to all governmental levels, such as EU, national, province, regional, and municipality. The realization of these goals requires developments in many systems, including non-technical systems (e.g. social, political, and ecological). One of the challenges is the complexity due to the large number of stakeholders (individuals, as well as many types of organizations) and the number of systems, all of them interacting and mutually dependent. A key function of SoS architecting is the creation and maintenance of the overview of the problem and solution space. SoS architects have many tools available to do this, such as conceptual modeling. In this paper, we will focus on Roadmapping as interaction tool between stakeholders. We are applying the tool at municipality level to study the tool's effectiveness.