ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates what it can mean to do socio-legal research in design mode using examples from own practice. In ‘modular’ mode the authors make ideas visible and tangible using a pre-fabricated set of components such as sticky notes on a wall, index cards or building blocks on a table. Researching interactions between predominantly Greek Cypriot southerners and predominantly Turkish Cypriot northerners on the famously ‘divided’ island of Cyprus is difficult because such life was for many years, and is in many respects, ‘illegal’; and because it continues to be deeply sensitive and relatively rare. The ‘Making sociolegal research visible and tangible’ workshop was held in March 2018 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and involved eight sociolegal researchers. Stakeholders from a wide range of public and civil society sectors were brought together in a series of hands-on participatory workshops loosely akin to design sprints.
