How to define and treat materials in social theories of practice: Exploring the role materials

This short review of the Track 091 ‘Exploring the role of materials’, sets out the key outcome of the track. The review draws out themes that lay under all the track talks, and the divisions the themes caused. The outcome of these themes was a set of theoretically informed questions on how to treat materials, where to approach practices, and also on what materials are. The review sets out some emerging avenues for future collaboration, highlighting the value of the conference in bringing together disparate sets of researchers focussed on similar narrowly specialised topics that might not have otherwise collaborated.