The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem (BCe2) is a collaborative community project designed to restore and enhance a vital but polluted river tributary by linking the efforts of local community groups, schools, and universities in the revitalizing city of South Bend, Indiana. As a community-based engineering project continues, two faculty advisors and two anthropology students reflect on the program's inaugural summer as practicing ethnographers. Practice, as an anthropological concept, not only has continual relevance for this ethnographic team; its confluence flows directly from the merger of collaborative engineering with practicing anthropology. The team explored “ethnographic engineering” as an emergent collaborative form of practicing anthropology.

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