ETHNOGRAPHY &amp DESIGN: MUTUAL PROVOCATIONS (CoLED Conference)

"Writing offers the chance to cultivate an attentiveness to life itself, and to enhance perceptions with the precision of words,” writes Kirin Narayan, a cultural anthropologist and writer whose work straddles the line between ethnography and creative nonfiction. This workshop takes Narayan’s book “Alive in Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov” as a source and inspiration. How can we write sensation? How can we write in descriptive and evocative ways to bring the matters driving our projects to life on the page? Using free writing and prompts, the organizers will set our writing processes and collaborative work in motion. We ask participants to bring quotes, images, or ideas for prompts with them as well. Together, we will develop a toolbox of sensory ethnographic writing prompts and exercises that we can all take with us.