Cookout session #3: Discursivity and Dramatization

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 workshop will support Chantier AI contributors by providing editorial feedback and examining discursive strategies and dramatization methods used in contemporary recipe writing.

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.

  June 3, 2026

1 -3:30 PM

Speculative Life EV 10.625

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