Another World Is Possible

ABOUT

A key event of Singapore Design Week 2025, the exhibition reflects a distinctly Singaporean approach to the future, one shaped by long-term thinking, environmental pragmatism, and an ethic of collective responsibility. In contrast to the dystopian tone common in Western popular culture, Singapore treats the future as something to be designed, debated, and actively constructed. This sensibility is woven through the exhibition’s architecture, design, and art – from WOHA’s biodiverse vertical cities to Pomeroy Studio’s floating farms.

Showcasing the visionary work of filmmaker and speculative architect Liam Young, alongside regional and international creatives such as Björk, Torlarp Larpjaroensook, Osborne Macharia, Ong Kian Peng, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Ming Wong, and more, Another World Is Possible proposes alternative ways of living, thinking, and being, and adopts a more hopeful approach to the future.

Another World Is Possible is co-curated by ArtScience Museum and Liam Young. This exhibition is presented in partnership with ACMI, Melbourne, Australia, and is a sequel to the exhibition, The Future and Other Fictions, originally curated and developed by ACMI. Another World Is Possible is part of ArtScience Museum’s SG60 season, celebrating Singapore’s 60th anniversary, and is sponsored by the DesignSingapore Council.

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We Dream in Futures: Another World Is Possible Opening Symposium

Date: 13 Sep 2025
Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm 
Fee: $10

This is a time suspended between crisis and potential, where inherited stories collide with the futures yet to be shaped. We Dream in Futures brings together artists, futurists, designers, worldbuilders and storytellers to ask: What kind of world is desired, and how might imagination guide the way toward it?

Through lectures, lightning talks and panels, the programme explores the transformative power of narrative to question the present, shift perspectives, and envision futures alive with possibility. Drawing on diverse disciplines and lived experiences, the symposium honours storytelling as a radical act of futurity — one that invites both vision and agency. Whether through design, fiction, memory or myth, the voices gathered here reveal that another world is not only possible, it is already seeded through the stories we choose to tell.

The invitation is open. Imagine it together, and dream it into being.

Speakers include Liam Young (speculative architect and director), Honor Harger (Vice President of Attractions and ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands), Darius Ou (art director and designer), Torlarp Larpjaroensook (artist), Joshua Lau (Assistant Curator at ArtScience Museum), and more.

Register from 25 Aug 2025.

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Guided Tour: Another World Is Possible
Date & Time: 16 & 30 Sep 2025, 4.00pm (English) | 20 & 27 Sep 2025, 1.00pm (Mandarin)

Fee: English Tours: $5 | Mandarin Tours: Complimentary with exhibition ticket purchase

Led by an Education Specialist, guests will be taken on a guided tour of the exhibition to learn more about world building across disciplines — cinema, design, architecture, art, and literature in speculating a positive tomorrow that incorporates local culture and a deep respect for our natural world.

ORGANISER

ArtScience Museum

ArtScience Museum is a space where art and science converge, inviting visitors to experience the world in new ways. It serves as a home for creativity, innovation, and the unexpected connections shaping the future.

Opened in 2011 and designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the museum has showcased works by major artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Salvador Dalí, alongside scientific exhibitions on particle physics, big data, and more.

Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in digital art at teamLab Future World, or to enter new realities in our state-of-the-art VR Gallery. The museum also offers thought-provoking films at ArtScience Cinema, and learning experiences at ArtScience Laboratory, where one can explore hands-on activities and experiments.

ArtScience Museum welcomes all visitors to come, explore, and see new possibilities.

CO-ORGANISER

ACMI

ACMI is Australia’s museum of screen culture. Watch, play, make and discover the universe of screen-based art, films, TV and videogames. Visit ACMI in Melbourne’s Fed Square, online and on tour. The museum attracts millions of visitors through a vibrant offer of exhibitions, screenings, commissions and festivals. ACMI’s industry, education and creative incubator programs inspire and develop the next generation of screen creatives. ACMI is a globally recognised hub that connects people, communities, technology and ideas to shape our futures.

CONTACT

Name: ArtScience Museum
Email Address: [email protected]

Top image: Design2050, ©WOHA and Obilia

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