Cookout session #1: Recipe Methodology in AI

Many, many Machine Agencies’ Writing Workshop

AI Chantier of the Hexagram Network brings together maker-thinkers whose work spans machine learning, interaction design, and experience design, to create a community of practice through a publication process.

Prompting potential contributors with an unusual format, Many, Many Machine Agencies asks for recipes, instructions, or games that centre the problem of agency and interaction and the importance of new kinds of encounters with machines. This edited collection is indeed a kind of a cookbook for engaging critically with machines, and as such, we take inspiration from celebrated cookbook authors, like MFK Fisher, who provide recipes and instructions for dishes, while embedding them in a broader biographical and cultural narrative.

This cookout session invites contributors to the AI Chantier publication drive to:

• Learn more about the recipe methodology and its relevance for engaging with machine agencies and AI
• To talk about their writing project (share ingredients) and get feedback
• Get a clearer picture about what the publishing process will look like.

Who can participate?

Prospective authors are invited to contribute to this session. We also invite those who are curious about the project.

This activity is produced in collaboration with Machine Agencies and Milieux Institute’s Speculative Life Cluster as part of the 2026 Interdisciplinary Encounters.

  April 21, 2026

1 -3:30 PM

Speculative Life EV 10.625

To register or for any questions, please contact nicole.debrabandere@gmail.com