Addressing the biodiversity crisis requires transformative change. The sustainability research community is responding with applied transdisciplinary and co-created futures research, which aims to define and/or evaluate desirable visions for and pathways to achieve positive futures for people and nature. This research offers insights to decision makers while facilitating learning across diverse disciplines and worldviews. As a rapidly evolving field, transdisciplinary futures research is an exciting domain of methodological innovation, bringing together systems approaches, participatory methods, creative practice and integrated modelling. This session aims to generate shared learning on the research process – how framing and methodological choices were made and with what impact on outcomes – to accelerate advancement of the field. We will assemble presentations from diverse researchers and practitioners who have experimented with novel transdisciplinary methods to develop and evaluate desirable biodiversity-centric scenarios. Presenters will be asked to spotlight and critically reflect on their methods. We invite contributions from the biodiversity research community who have pursued novel transdisciplinary futures methods. We are interested in case studies that are pushing frontiers in three domains: 1) applying systems approaches to explore trade-offs, synergies and complexities across scenario trajectories, 2) incorporating imaginative or inspirational methods to ‘open up’ consideration of novel scenarios and 3) grappling with the challenges in linking rich participant views on ‘desirable’ futures into broader aims including modelling. Through bridging diverse contexts, we hope to steward future directions that can better inform and enable transformation.