Future Wunderkammer
Future Wunderkammer is an interactive speculative archive for Berggruen Institute, presenting relics from possible futures through a digital experience built with Two Eyed People.
/ Overview
Future Wunderkammer is an interactive speculative archive for Berggruen Institute, presenting relics from possible futures through a digital experience built with Two Eyed People.
/ Project Details
Name: Future Wunderkammer
Client: Berggruen Institute
Role: Fractional CTO
Year: 2025
Experience: futurerelics.berggruen.org
/ Challenge
Future Wunderkammer needed a digital experience that could hold an unusual mix of speculative art, scientific research and storytelling without feeling like a conventional archive. The platform needed to invite exploration, preserve the mystery of the relics and make a complex interdisciplinary project feel immediate and navigable.
/ Provided Services
Fractional CTO Support
Supporting Two Eyed People with technical leadership across build decisions, delivery and launch readiness.
Interactive Experience
Helping deliver the Future Relics archive as a public digital experience guided by Diotima.
Creative Technology
Bringing speculative content, interface design and technical execution into one coherent product surface.
/ Solution
As Fractional CTO for Two Eyed People, I helped build the Future Relics experience: an exploratory digital archive where visitors encounter relics from possible futures and are guided through the collection by Diotima. The work translated a rich conceptual project into an accessible web experience.
/ Value Delivered
Public Digital Experience
Helped launch a public interactive archive for Berggruen Institute's Future Humans program.
Speculative Archive
Supported a collection of future relics, each posing a speculative answer to what life might become.
Experience Delivery
Balanced creative direction, performance and delivery needs across an experimental web platform.
/ Project Note
Future Wunderkammer reimagines the cabinet of curiosity for distant and possible futures, bringing together speculative art, scientific research and storytelling through a public digital experience.
Matt Rose
Fractional CTO