The table: considering sketching as collective making

As design researchers, we often make use of sketching in our work. What happens when we explore the edges of this practice in order to focus on sketching as a collective making site? We address this question through a series of workshops designed to explore a wide range of sketching strategies. In this case study, we make use of both writing and sketching to highlight the collective making aspects in each of these activities. We found that a variety of turn-taking techniques were employed to prompt participants to negotiate the paper surface as a collective site. This resulted in a set of collectively authored sketches that we believe shows possibilities for producing a different kind of collective visual knowledge. We offer our experiences as a set of propositions that may be used to explore other practices of collective making. These propositions are centred on notions of emergence, intervention and collective authorship.