This paper explores speculative archival system-apparatus within a technologically mediated world by applying New Materialist theories based on Haraway, Barad, Latour and Deleuze. It questions how through new materialist theories, can oddkin build custom archival systems to preserve cultural memory archives.

It investigates alternative archival systems, digital forms and methodologies, drawing from historical examples that trace the lineage of ancient archives to internet structures such as Geocities. Both methods provide a comprehensive understanding of foundational theories, history and politics of archives as well as understand the digital world’s state in association with archives. The investigation reveals the biases that have excluded minority matter narratives.

Within the internet materiality, the fragmentation of archives increases due to echo chambers and post-truth effects. The research culminates with a proposal of a new archival system, titled Field Guide for Oddkin, embodying frameworks of world, forest, tree, branches and nodes. The guide proposes recalibrating archives as living assemblages that evolve with subjective-objective knowledge as well as introducing making-with archives as sympoietic systems that can explore multisensory and technological tools, to preserve cultural memory and material interactions.

Ambedo Field is a boundary-drawing practice through design, aiming to create an archive-apparatus that captures the ephemeral aspects of rave kin-cultures. It proposes a speculative, decentralised, community-driven, and technologically-enabled archive that has a physical site of assembly and experience. Ultimately, the field guide aims to encourage oddkin to challenge autopoietic systems, by providing open-source tools for archival practices, ensuring accessibility and adaptability in an ongoing digital world.