Urban social-ecological resilience research has focused on conceptual explorations, while less attention has been paid tohow resilience thinking in practice may inform urban development. Using the rapidly urbanizing landscape in Stockholm as a case, weexplore the urban specifics of resilience thinking practice and thereby contribute to the development of knowledge and practice ofsocial-ecological resilience thinking generally. The study addresses an urban wicked problem: how to ensure that people continue tohave access to the means necessary to realize benefits from green blue infrastructure, when the city is changing and governance isfragmented. Drawing on insights from the design and implementation of a participatory dialogue process, we outline methodologicaladaptations to a resilience informed system exploration, to better accommodate the complexity of urban systems. The participatoryprocess included three phases: basic system understanding, dealing with change over time, and identifying alternative ways forward.Different knowledge elicitation and deliberation methods were deployed within workshops, surveys, and interviews, and were paralleledby a thorough reflexive analysis of process outcomes. The main discussion points are stakeholder participation, the role of discourses,identities and mandates, agency, and adaptive capacity, and alternative strategies for dealing with change. Deep knowledge of thecomplexities of urban land use and governance requires the involvement of diverse stakeholders. Handling this diversity poses achallenge for process design: combining the ambition of an inclusive process and the need to be relevant with the use of bridgingconcepts increases the risk of reducing the level of complexity of the deliberative process. There is also a risk of participation bias,where stakeholders knowledgeable about the green blue infrastructure are easier to engage compared to stakeholders with knowledgeabout drivers of change and urban governance, which will influence the system understanding and envisioned alternative pathways fortaking action.