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What can just and sustainable futures look like and what metaphors can help reconsider the role of natures in narratives of transformation? We would like to open up a space for mutual learning, reflection, and co-creation to explore the current and potential future uses of metaphors of nature-culture. Among the many elements that characterise narratives and discourses, we focus on metaphors since several heuristics and models highlight their role in and for deep transformations. Metaphors underpin worldviews and mental models, and are fundamental to interpreting the world, organising cognitive landscapes, and structuring societal systems. In particular basic, core, or root metaphors can influence the perception and interpretation of reality by providing basic assumptions to shape a world hypothesis or by forming a comprehensive analogy to give meaning to life. Building on previous research on metaphors of change used to explore and enact desirable futures in prefigurative efforts, our poster will offer an overview of how natures are represented and reproduced by alternative movements within the pluriverse. We would also like to invite participants to engage with our research in interactive and experiential ways, reflecting on the natures-metaphors they currently use or hear in their surroundings environments, as well as exploring new root metaphors of nature-culture and of human and more-than-human entanglements which can inspire transformative ways of thinking, acting, and narrating.