As an ethnographer and cluster member, I routinely use my graphic tablet to make notes of the activities that bring us together. At first, these sketches looked like scattered memories. But I soon discerned that these traces we leave behind, such as these drawings, but also our uncertain interactions, common drafts and completed events, are in fact glimpses of our futures.

Curiosity is a type of thirst. It brings living networks to seek the 'processive value of coming to know.[1] The philosopher Gottfried W. Leibniz once wrote that for brains to think and imagine, both individually and collectively, they need to be stretched into a state of tension. Only then are the connections ready to vibrate together like strings on an instrument – and we can start weaving the real and the unreal into intricate tapestries of epistemic threads.[2]

Like dancers, curious scholars at MoA constantly loop their explorations, continuously winding up questions as they touch upon them, and sketching together toward novel common grounds. Among them, as a graphic ethnographer, I produce a dynamic chronicling in order to understand their serpentine becoming.

In interdisciplinary practice, ethnographers can play a role as a resonating board; as they tap into and shape up certain atmospheres and presences, they participate in the tonal qualities of conversations. These sketches bear witness to the state-altering nature of interdisciplinarity, as members of the cluster return to their desks, their perspectives attuned to different dimensions of the world.