The aim of this workshop is to leverage participants’ expertise and creativity to collaboratively develop (a) a better understanding of the diverse roles that material artifacts can play in positioning processes and (b) new methods for analyzing these roles empirically. Positioning researchers have recently begun to explore how people use artifacts to position themselves and others. In this workshop, we will draw on post-humanist theories to explore how artifacts become intertwined with human action and communication and positioned together, as human-material entanglements. As a concrete example, we will analyze a short video sequence in which five engineering students engage in small group learning while one of the students eats from glass bowl. We will explore how the student-bowl entanglement is positioned and how it, in turn, positions other students and artifacts. Based on the concrete experiences of analyzing the student-bowl positioning, we will then address three more general methodological challenges: (1) How can we analyze positioning processes involving human-material entanglements? (2)What implications arise for positioning theory more broadly and definitions of central analytic concepts? (3) How can we develop multimodal transcriptions of video data for analyzing and representing positioning processes that involve human-material entanglements?