#Colleex 1st Workshop - Lisbon
Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork Devices and Companions
EBANO hosted the 1st #Colleex International workshop in 2017, choosing the Tropical Botanical Garden of Lisbon as the site of encounter and exchange for more than 90 international participants.
#Colleex is a collaboratory for ethnographic experimentation. An official network of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA). It aims to open up a space for debate and intervention around experimental forms of ethnographic (field) work. Amid profound debates in recent years on the nature and conventions of ethnography, #Colleex seeks to explore novel forms of knowledge production for anthropology. The network is organized as a ‘collaboratory’ whose main agenda is to foster practical explorations alongside theoretical debates on what we call ethno- graphic experimentation.
#Colleex intends to explore the infrastructures, spaces, forms of relationship, methods, and techniques required to inject an experimental sensibility in fieldwork. In no way unprecedented in the anthropological endeavour, experimentation has been invoked decades ago as an opportunity to renovate the discipline through nov- el forms of ethnographic writing and representation. The #Colleex network intends to further develop the experimental impulse present in anthropology, shifting its locus from the process of writing to the practice of fieldwork. The intention is to work on a question: What would ethnographic fieldwork look like if it was shaped around the epistemic practice of experimentation? In #Colleex fieldwork experi- mentation is not just invoked for its own sake but because there is a prospect that doing so could help foster new forms of anthropological theorization.Mission
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The network seeks to connect with anthropologists and other practitioners of ethnography interested in discussing their fieldwork practices. It could be of interest for specialists in the fields of visual anthropology, sensory anthropology, digital eth- nography, design anthropology, as well as other social scientists and researchers us- ing participatory and experimental methodologies, creative intersections of art and anthropology, or anthropology and STS. The network also seeks to include specialists from other domains like artists, cultural producers, designers, and practitioners of any discipline interested in creative experimentation with ethnographic practice. The inventive unfolding of ethnography already taking place in those areas could greatly contribute to strengthening the reach of anthropological fieldwork practices.
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