This year’s ‘Atelier’ is inspired by the GIDE network’s Mobile Museum event held in Dundee in February 2019. We are one of eight nations who will reinterpret this mobile museum trigger in diverse ways. DJCAD will explore this through an investigation of a Wunderkammer for the 21st Century.

The Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities [ quite literally wonder-chamber ] arose in 16th century Europe as repositories for all manner of wondrous and exotic objects. These collections marked the intersection of science and superstition, combining specimens, diagrams, and illustrations from many disciplines. They drew on natural, manmade and artificial worlds, and can be seen as precursors, or prototypes, of the museum and part of the evolving landscape of the museum, exhibition design and the capacity for objects and spaces to convey a narrative to an audience.