50 FUTURES DESIGN WORDS
WORDS ONLY
The 50 words point to key terms and concepts, curated for design students and designer-researchers who’re learning how to engage in making, shaping and critiquing FUTURES DESIGN and DESIGN FUTURE LITERACIES. The 50 words are further connected to a range of activities covered in the UNITS and are a resource to consult in students’ learning through briefs/tasks/deliveries, whether in a studio course or when preparing term paper/presentation or thesis.
| 1. Agency | 26. Network |
| 2. Allure | 27. Participative |
| 3. Anticipation | 28. Plurality |
| 4. Aspiration | 29. Possible |
| 5. Backcasting | 30. Proactive |
| 6. Belonging | 31. Probable |
| 7. Care | 32. Projection |
| 8. Change | 33. Prospective |
| 9. Co-creation | 34. Proximal |
| 10. Collaborative | 35. Relational |
| 11. Collective | 36. Robotic |
| 12. Complexity | 37. Scenario |
| 13. Creativity | 38. Seeding |
| 14. Disruptive | 39. Simulation |
| 15. Dynamic | 40. Speculative |
| 16. Dystopia | 41. Stakeholder |
| 17. Ecological | 42. Survivable |
| 18. Emergent | 43. Sustainable |
| 19. Ethical | 44. Systemic |
| 20. Expectation | 45. Transhuman |
| 21. Fabulation | 46. Trends |
| 22. Flux | 47. Trust |
| 23. Foresee | 48. Utopia |
| 24. Harmony | 49. Viable |
| 25. Imagination | 50. Vision |
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THIS ESSENTIAL IS USED IN
3. IDENTIFYING FUTURES DESIGN TERMS
4. WORKING WITH FUTURES DESIGN TERMS
6. MEDIATING FUTURES DESIGN TERMS
8. SHAPING FUTURES DESIGN TERMS
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