Collective Agency in Community Water Governance Dataset, Cerro Castillo National Park Buffer Zone, Aysén Patagonia

This dataset documents participatory futures workshops held in 2026 with two rural drinking water committees (Comités de Agua Potable Rural, APR) in the interface zone of Cerro Castillo National Park, Aysén, Chilean Patagonia. The two committees were selected because they contrast on institutional phase: one has operated a supply system since 1989 (APR-A, mature operational phase); the other was constituted in 2019 and does not yet have infrastructure (APR-B, pre-operational phase). Committees and participants are not named. The workshops combined two participatory instruments. The World Mandala was used to build a systemic reading of the territory across twelve interdependent domains, worked on a large-format map with modelling clay, drawings and a woven yarn network. The Three Horizons framework was then used to move from a diagnosis of the present system (H1), through a desired future (H3) and examples of that future already present, to the transition actions that would connect them (H2). Suitable for reuse in research on community water governance, collective agency, participatory futures methods and rural territorial change.