“What a mess” is an archive in which are collected the outcomes of a series of traveling walkshops during which participants were invited to 3D scan elements of their urban fabric they wished to digitally archive.

During the 2 hours experience, participants are sent on a photogrammetry (3D scanning) scavenger hunt, in which they must work together to explore how a given theme is reflected in a neighborhood. Limited to 5 captures, the participants have to negotiate what to capture and how their captures connect to the given theme.

Each set of five captures (or specimens) were then contracted into aggregates, semi-living phygital entities documented here, and presented during various exhibitions.