  In this paper, I argue that we can better understand the relationship between
social structure and materiality by combining qualitative analysis of practices
in shared physical space with statistical analysis. Drawing on the two-mode
approach, I treat social and material structures together with the relationship
between them as a two-level socio-material network. In a mixed method study,
formalized ethnographic data on such networks in five European artistic
collectives are subjected to multilevel exponential random graph modelling. It
sheds light on how different types of interpersonal ties condition the
engagement of individuals with similar materiality over time.
