“Where Theory and Practice Meet... or not” was presented at The Agents of Design/Design as Agency symposium held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (March 9-10, 2018). An expanded version of the paper is published under the title "Textual Agency: pitfalls and potentials" in the book Design and Agency (Bloomsbury Academic: 2020) edited by the conference organisers John Potvin & Marie- Ève Marchand.