Time: 09:00–10:30, Wednesday, 10th June 2026

Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) - Get directions

Thematic Leads: Xiaozhuang Gao (link) and Abid Abbas (link)

How do you explain a design decision that felt right but is hard to put into words? In design practice, the process is often where the real knowledge lives. However, it can be messy, tacit and difficult to communicate. This workshop invites you to make your design process visible.

Together, we explore why audit trails matter in practice-based research and experiment with visual tools to help externalise the reasoning behind our design moves. You will then exchange your visualisations with peers and ask: Can I follow your process? Which steps feel convincing?

Leave with a new visual representation of your own process, fresh conversations about how others document their practice, and a welcome break from the intensity of DRS.

Before you arrive: please reflect on a recent project: how have you been documenting your process, and are there decisions you have found difficult to articulate? Optionally, bring any artifacts that help share your story.