0. Overview / Summary

1. Significance of Metaphors Project

• Forms of presentation
• Cognitive role of metaphor
• Metaphor, analogy, symbol and pattern
• Root metaphors and social organization
• Generative metaphor and policy-making
• Patterns of concepts
• Communication through symbols
• Degradation of symbolic forms

• Contemporary crisis of governance
• Epistemological crisis of governance
• Unsustainable policies
• Comprehending complexity and appropriateness
• Comprehending any new social order
• Metaphor as an unexplored resource in a time of challenge
• Transcending the "switch" metaphor
• Transcending methodological limitations
• Imaginal deficiency and simplistic metaphors
• Imaginal deficiency in management and policy-making
• Distinguishing extended metaphors
• Designing metaphors and sets of metaphors

• Programme of metaphoric development
• From governing metaphors to governance through metaphor
• Governance through enhancing the movement of meaning
• Appropriate metaphors of sustainable development
• Enhancing policy through powerful metaphors
• Comprehending policy meshing and entrainment
• Metaphor as a language for global governance

• Reframing problems as metaphors
• Reframing the problem of "overpopulation"
• Reframing cooperation through metaphor
• Pattern language experiments
• Metaphoric revolution for the individual
• Metaphor as an unexplored resource for transdisciplinarity
• "Re-reading" patterns of concepts

• Future possibilities and dangers