The Atelier Series

This is the first body of Studio Ethnography posts — grounded in place, movement, and biography. Each entry revisits a city, a site, or a moment that shaped my experimental practice. It traces the spatial and temporal unfolding of my studio-based anthropology. These reflections are written as fragments of an itinerary — a geography of learning through making. From Munich to Copenhagen, from New York to Bogotá, each place offered a different rhythm, a different material sensitivity. They record how methods were not only conceived in studios or classrooms but also improvised in streets, archives, markets, and printshops. These moments mark when ethnography began to merge with drawing, layout, and fabrication — when the field became a workshop.

Together, these entries form a cartography of experimentation. They are not travel notes, but situated rehearsals of thought — attempts to understand how context, atmosphere, and infrastructure influence method. Each post is a vignette of transformation, showing how the conditions of a place can tune ethnographic sensibility: how light, sound, tools, and gestures participate in thinking. The Atelier Series gathers these situated beginnings, offering an ongoing record of how the practice of anthropology continues to reassemble itself through space.

A geography of making →