Anthropogenic landscapes, climate change, waves, carbon, futures: the objects at the heart of the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene and Alien Energy projects do not fit well into scholarship-as-usual. They cross established disciplinary boundaries and call out for new modes of engagement, collaboration, and presentation. What are the overlapping methodological concerns into which our objects of study pull us? This workshop aims to focus on the material practices of our scholarship. With this workshop we aim to open a joint conversation about our ongoing empirical explorations and their relationship with our theoretical and analytical orientations. Both of our projects are enacting fields such as anthropology and STS differently: we are finding that classical disciplinary practices are not adequate for our current work. In response, we are turning to new forms and collaborations: art interventions, ‘critical makings,’ and engaged science. In this workshop, we want to create a space for reflection: What kinds of scholarship are we bringing into being through our new practices? In what ways might our work be – in the words of Marilyn Strathern – in an “awkward relationship” with established scholarly approaches and practices? What kinds of insights might emerge from such tensions and frictions? We hope to raise questions about how materially oriented methods for data collection, analysis, presentation and collaboration may enable us to live with established traditions, while both moving around and being moved.