ABSTRACT
This chapter explicates a studio-workshop model for facilitating collaboration between designers and anthropologists. It implements design-based workshops with the general aim of undertaking collaborative materialization as a lateral analytic process, but also with a more dedicated aim: to develop productive encounters that can be implemented in the field as part of ongoing research. The subterranean aim, perhaps, is to remake the normative modality for scholarly engagement (highly discursive, textual, critical) into engagements that are cross-disciplinary, creative, iterative, and material. Unlike a science lab that is outfitted to meet the precise needs of an experiment, a design workshop requires a makerspace where there is an array of tools and materials for more spontaneous experimentation. At their most basic, prompts structure a dynamic collaborative process in a workshop setting. At their most fully realized, they are the building blocks to design a kind of provocation or intervention in the field.
