The workshop is structured into three themes:
- Workshop 2012's theme I (Performance and Imaginaries)
- coordinated by Franz Martin Krause
- Keynote by Kenneth Olwig
- Discussant Claire Waterton
- Workshop 2012's theme II (Managing Objects, Enacting Assemblages)
- coordinated by Anup Sam Ninan, Hannah Strauss, Niklas Hartmann
- Keynote by Kristin Asdal
- Discussant Werner Krauss
- Workshop 2012's theme III (Rationales and Rationalities)
- coordinated by Ingmar Lippert
- Keynote by Lucy Suchman
- Discussant Isabelle Mauz