The Anatomy and Etiquette of Social Change is a multi-part project that builds a back and forth dialogue with university communities about ideas of social change and barriers that prevent positive adaption, particularly within university institutions. Combining community surveys and sit-down conversations with installations and small publications, this project uses animal fables as an entry point into complex conversations around personal experiences and frustrations with life within an institution. The project engages students, faculty and staff to collect ideas and then reflects those ideas back to the community. This then became the starting point for further conversations and surveys. The aim was not only to explore ideas about change within the university community but also to look at how the university itself, as an organism-like entity, existing within a larger human ecology, evolves and adapts (or resists) in response to the changing social, economic and political conditions around it. Through the conversations a constellation of ideas was collected which became an amorphous portrait of how the university community was thinking about change at that institution.