Communities in the coastal district of Indramayu, Indonesia, live with chronic tidal and annual flooding that continually affect livelihoods, housing, and urban systems. These water-related hazards are not only environmental problems but also the underlying cause of social and economic vulnerability. This paper presents a preliminary study from the PARCS Indonesia Living Lab, which explores how participatory “imaginaries” can be integrated with energy and resource modelling as a first step towards the later development of community-driven resilience visual tools. The work is positioned at the early phase of the PARCS project, running alongside the design of the Imaginaries Workshop Protocol and preparing the ground for the following deliverables on water resource management and life cycle assessment (LCA). Our main question is how early alignment between community narratives, physical modelling, and data visualization can strengthen the design of future adaptation and mitigation tools. The study combines literature review, stakeholder scoping, and conceptual mapping of indicators relevant to flooding, energy use, material cycles, and institutional capacity. It proposes an initial integration framework describing how technical data (from modelling and LCA) and local imaginaries (from participatory workshops) can later be visualized together to support decision-making. While no tool or prototype has yet been developed, this groundwork identifies essential requirements for future dashboards, including usability, inclusiveness, and representational clarity. The findings inform both the Imaginaries Workshop design and the overarching goal of developing community-based strategies and tools for sustainable built environments in flood-prone areas of the Global South.