Most workshops end when the room empties, and whatever was learned in it disperses along with the participants, undocumented and therefore unusable by anyone who was not present. A workshop becomes something closer to a laboratory when its observations are deliberately captured in a form that survives the session — notes, prototypes, recorded decisions — and can subsequently be built on by people who never attended. This is a low bar in principle and a rarely cleared one in practice, since documentation is unglamorous compared to the workshop's live energy and gets skipped precisely when everyone is most satisfied with how the session went. EnduringProof names the resulting artefact: not proof that a workshop happened, which photographs already supply, but proof of what was actually discovered inside it, durable enough to be cited, challenged or extended later. A situated-research practice that cannot produce this kind of proof is, whatever its energy, closer to a workshop than to research.
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