Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation

Ian Hughes is Senior Research Fellow at the MaREI SFI Research Centre for Energy Climate and Marine. His research interests are in deep institutional innovation sustainability and human development. He is author of Disordered Minds and contributing author to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.Edmond Byrne is Chair Professor of Processand Chemical Engineering at University College Cork. His research interests include transdisciplinary approaches around sustainability. He Chairs the 10th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development conference (EESD2021) and co-edited Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability published by Routledge in 2017.Gerard Mullally lectures in Sociology at University College Cork, specializing in environment, community, climate, energy and sustainable development. He leads 'Imagining 2050' at UCC's Environmental Research Institute, a transdisciplinary research consortium which engages with civic society using innovative approaches, to explore and co-develop future visions of, and pathways to, a low carbon and climate resilient future. He co-edited Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability.Colin Sage is an independent scholar based in Portugal who works on the interconnections of food systems, environment, and prospects for greater civic engagement around food. He is the author of Environment and Food, 2012; and co-editor of four books, including Food System Transformations to be published by Routledge in 2021.