FUTURES DESIGN MOVEMENT WORDS

WORDS ONLY

This list contains only verbs. They are about movement. For the Future to exist and for things to happen there and be designed to propose, prompt and project events and actions ahead of now, people and objects and systems all need to move. 

This ESSENTIAL has been developed in collaboration between FUEL4DESIGN and the artistic research project AMPHIBIOUS TRILOGIES.

A

absorbing

accelerating

approaching 

arriving

assembling

B

balancing

bending

birthing

blowing

bobbing

blooming

breaking

breathing

breeding

bubbling

C

calming

capping

carrying

catapulting

choking

clinging

circling

circulating

collecting

concealing

containing

connecting

cradling

crashing

crawling

cropping

crouching

cupping

cutting

cycling

D

dancing

darkening

departing

desiccating

dissolving

distributing

diverging

docking

draining

drawing

driving

drying

dwelling

E

elongating

embedding

embodying

embroidering

energising

etching

exhaling

expanding

exploding

expose

extending

extracting

F

fabulating

facetting

facing

falling

fetching

fiddling

fissuring

flourishing

filtering

fishing

floating

flowing

fluttering

fluctuating

flying

following

forging

forming

framing

freezing

G

gathering

gesticulating

gesturing

gnawing

giving

grouping

growing

H

halting

hanging

healing

heaving

hiking

hoisting

I

illuminating

impeaching

imploding

infusing

inhaling

interacting

interfacing

intertwining

inverting

isolating

iterating

J

jittering

joining

journeying

juddering

K

kneading

knotting

knitting

L

landing

languishing

launching

leading

leaping

licking

lighting

lightening

lingering

linking

liquefying

listening

looming

lying

M

magnifying

maintaining

mapping

marking

marketing

meandering

measuring

melting

migrating

milling

mingling

mixing

monitoring

multiplying

N

navigating

nosing

nudging

numbing

nurturing

O

obstructing

opening

orientating

overlaying

P

packing

panning

participating

passaging

patterning

pausing

perambulating

performing

permeating

pitching

policing

posing

planting

plundering

plunging

polarising

polluting

pondering

positioning

pressing

probing

projectng

prompting

propelling

pulling

pulsating

pumping

pursuing

pushing

R

reaching

recording

recurring

reiterating

reflecting

reflexing

resisting

resting

revealing

riding

rippling

rising

rocking

rotating

ruminating

running

routing

S

sailing

sampling

saturating

scaling

scanning

scattering

scoping

scaping

selecting

separating

sewing

shadowing

shaking

shaping

sharing

shifting

signing

shipping

shivering

silencing

sitting

skimming

sliding

slinging

slipping

slithering

slobbering

slowing

snapping

sneaking

solidifying

soothing

speaking

spinning

sprawling

spreading

spurting

squiggling

squirming

stagnating

standing

starting 

stopping

storming

streaming

stretching

stuffing

struggling

stuttering

succouring

supporting

surging

suspending

sustaining

swallowing

swilling

swishing

T

taking

tasting

tending

threshing

throwing

tightening

tilting

tingling

touching

tracking

trading

transferring

transfixing

transforming

transiting

transmitting

transporting

trapping

travelling

traversing

trawling

twining

twinning

twisting

U

undulating

unlinking

underpinning

V

vaulting

verbalising

vibrating

voicing

vomiting

voting

W

waiting

walking

washing

waving

weaving

wetting

winding

winding

wobbling

wrapping

wringing

Z

zeroing in

zapping

zigzaging

zipping

zooming

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