Wunderkammers – the eccentric cabinets of curiosities that emerged in sixteenth-century Europe, assembling encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries had yet to be defined – can be understood as some of the earliest organizational matrices in collecting practices. By assembling heterogeneous objects within a shared display logic, they established proto-systems of archiving, classification, comparison and meaning-making. Before the emergence of modern taxonomies, museography, databases, or computational models, Wunderkammers operated as pre-algorithmic devices, where rules of ordering and knowledge production were shaped by spatial logic, repetition, use and error rather than from formalized code.

Read through this lens, the Wunderkammer appears not as a mere precursor to scientific classification, but as a spatial framework that enables algorithmic forms of display: a device whose order is continuously reshuffled and reconfigured through accumulation, manipulation, and contingency.

Building on this genealogy, architecture studio 2050+ will lead a workshop that reconsiders algorithmic design not as a computational abstraction, but rather as a living, organic practice. Central to the workshop will be engaging with the taxonomy of the Scrap-Kammer, where scraps are not treated as mere debris but as entities with an intrinsic material value. Participants will explore, classify, and experiment with these fragments before constructing the frame or structure that will house them—transforming the accumulated materials into a contemporary Wunderkammer – a Scrap-Kammer.

Conceived as a cabinet of the discarded – a hybrid between collection, archive, and working device – this collectively designed apparatus will gather scraps, errors, leftovers, tests, mock-ups, fragments and found objects produced through the ongoing activities and practices at Boisbuchet, turning the everyday byproducts of making into a curated site of discovery and experimentation.

In this way, the Scrap-Kammer will operate as a feedback-loop system rather than a static container: each new element entering the collection will alter its internal order, spatial logic and modes of display, departing from fixed computational paradigms. The device is designed to evolve over time, absorbing new materials while continuously renegotiating its own structure.

The workshop will thus invite participants to investigate architecture as an operational framework rather than a finished object: a device that records processes, hosts residues and reveals the intelligence of making. The structure will function as both archive and device, memory and generator — a living index of collective experimentation at the Domaine.