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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