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IntroductionThe Research Through Design (RTD) conference was first held in 2013 as a way to engage practice-based researchers of and in design to share their process, reflect on their work, and critique the work of their co-delegates. In a break from a traditional conference format, RTD placed objects at the core of discussion, with delegates seated around large tables on which the practitioners' work sat at the center as artifacts of research. A notable success of RTD 2013 was the richness of the intellectual critique that the "Rooms of Interest" and roundtable approach fostered. However, this success was a cultural memory that faded with time. The conversations, reflections, and atmosphere of this richness were left unrecorded. This loss was something we wanted to address through the documentation of RTD 2015.This reflective piece focuses on the practices of Scribes, a feature that was newly introduced to RTD 2015 and was envisioned as a way to capture aspects of the highly discursive nature of this conference format. "Scribing" refers to drawing, writing notations, or mark-making on paper to capture some essence of the discussions, dynamics, and atmosphere of the various sessions of the conference as they happen. Scribing was selected because of its potential to capture more than notes of what was being said and because of its place in broader design studio practices as a means to capture ideas, conversations, and textures of group engagement. For RTD 2015, six scribes worked in pairs in the "Rooms of Interest" and collectively during "Provocations." None of the invited scribes were "professional scribes"; instead, each had an active interest in research through design and came from diverse backgrounds as practitioners. The scribes were briefed by the event's Documentation Chairs to capture conversations in any way that fit with their practice and with which they were comfortable. For example, Erika Shorter, a creative writer, used writing as her "scribe lens." The other scribes were Jo Foster (Fine Art and Music),

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