Publications and other outputs
Publications listing
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Policy brief |
Policy brief | art-based methodology, arts, methodology, DSIS, DSIS workshop, policy brief, ways of seeing, collage, poem, poetry | 2025 |
DSIS Policy Brief - Arts and Methodology |
This policy brief summarizes the learnings of a DSIS workshop held at the Sustainability Institute UCC on 29 Nov 2024. It highlighted the importance of the ‘different ways of seeing’ element within the DSIS model, particularly through arts-based practices. | More details Read publication |
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Report |
Report | polycrisis, metacrisis, sacred, sacred ordinary, Mary McAleese, Restoring, DSIS, Sustainability, Human Flourishing | 2025 |
Workshop Report 'Restoring the Sacred Ordinary in a Time of Polycrisis' |
This report describes the DSIS workshop ‘Restoring the Sacred Ordinary in a Time of Polycrisis’ held at University College Cork on June 17-18, 2025, hosted by twice former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. | More details Read publication |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
Conference Paper / Proceedings | nos hemos escondido, we have hidden ourselves, Festival of Social Science | 2024 |
Nos hemos escondido: we have hidden ourselves |
Conference presentation at the Collective Social Futures, Festival of Social Science, 25/26 November 2024 UCC | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Global Transformation, Cultural Transformation, social Institutions, Change, societal change | 2024 |
Conceptualising Global Cultural Transformation: Developing Deep Institutional Scenarios for Whole of Society Change |
This paper aims to contribute to current efforts to improve methodologies to find more ambitious and integrated strategies to jointly pursue the Paris climate target and other Sustainable Development Goals. | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | institutional imagination, societal challenges, Europe | 2024 |
Unlocking institutional imagination: Building institutional capacity to address societal challenges – the case of European missions |
This article contains the keynote address given by Wolfgang Polt at the Futures Forum conference on ‘Transformative Change: Unlocking Institutional Imagination’ that took place at Maynooth University on 4 April 2024, with responses from Maggie O’Neill, and Seán Ó Riain, and reflections from Ruth Freeman, Gerry Clabby, and Seán Ó Foghlú. The session was chaired by Ian Hughes. | More details Read publication |
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Journal Article |
Journal Article | Western tradition, Christian tradition, indigenous worldviews, narratives, paradigmatic transformation | 2024 |
Traditional and Contemporary Eco-cosmologies Within Western and Christian Traditions: Green Shoots for Integral and Integrative Sustainability Transformation |
This article traces persistent and important counter-narratives within Western and Christian traditions, which correlate more closely with many indigenous worldviews from across the globe than with dominant narratives from across these traditions. | More details Read publication |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
Conference Paper / Proceedings | Conceptualising, whole-of-society transformation, Deep Institutional Innovation, Sustainability, Human Flourishing | 2025 |
Conceptualising whole-of-society transformation |
The model of Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability and Human Flourishing. Presented at the 16th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Lisbon, 24-26 June 2025 | More details Read publication |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
Conference Paper / Proceedings | poetics, epistemology, rhizome, arts-based practices, critical phenomenology | 2025 |
Poetics and the Environment - Portals into perception: Knowing with a poetic mind |
Conference Paper "Portals into perception: Knowing with a poetic mind" presented at UCC CACSSS Postgraduate Research Conference, University College Cork. 20-21 Feb. 2025 | More details Read publication |
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Report |
Report | climate Change, Security, Defence,Global Leadership, Ireland, Defence Forces | 2025 |
Defence Forces Review 2024 - Climate Change, Security, and Defence — A Global Leadership Role for Ireland |
Ian Hughes and Richard Wood contributed "Climate Change, Security, and Defence — A Global Leadership Role for Ireland" to the Defence Forces Review 2024 (pp. 65-72.) | More details Read publication |
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Presentation |
Presentation | DSIS, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Oct 2025, Live Not by Lies, World Philosophies, Meaning and Transformation | 2025 |
Live Not by Lies DSIS Presentation |
The International Conference on World Philosophies, Meaning and Transformation was held October 30-31, 2025 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Ian Hughes made a presentation on behalf of DSIS entitled ‘Live Not by Lies – Transformation to Human Flourishing as Transformation to Authenticity’. | More details Read publication |