Short Abstract:

We are gathering a series of explorative studios under the conceptual provocation ‘re-designing the social’. Anthropologists, artists, and designers are invited to platform their attempts and prototypes to enact, perform, or stage alternative ways of arranging and composing the world (worldings).

Long Abstract:

As convenors of #Colleex (EASA's Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation), we aim to gather a series of explorative presentations of different colleagues who are eager to share their ethnographic experiments and to reflect in which way their practice has been re-designing the social wherever it took place. Thus, this event is a combination of a lab & network meeting, open for open-format sharings.

Our call for experimentation emphasises contributions that demonstrate re-design in the re/making, trying out things that might not be conventional or established in an open-ended gesture, not necessarily militant, nor done with materials traditionally identified as political and academic. Instead, our call is an appeal to sketching out a different kind of interventionist practice: an activity of re-working both social relations as well as their representation as a way of expanding the knowable and the role of anthropology in the contemporary.

We encourage colleagues to conceive their presentations in an open-format that invites conference attendees to further intervene and share in their respective experimentations. Drawing inspiration from these studios of experimentation, we also invite participants to reflect on how their practices might reconfigure what anthropology could be in the future through a re-design interventions.