This September, ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands opens the doors to possibility with the global premiere of its landmark exhibition, Another World Is Possible. Launching on 13 September 2025, the show invites visitors to step into radical visions of the future through art, design, cinema, architecture, and literature.
A Collaborative Vision of Tomorrow
Co-curated by ArtScience Museum and BAFTA-nominated producer, designer and director Liam Young, the exhibition highlights the transformative power of worldbuilding. It imagines alternative ways of living and thinking, offering not just escape but a hopeful reorientation toward resilience, creativity, and collective responsibility.
Supported by DesignSingapore Council as a signature highlight of Singapore Design Week 2025, the exhibition arrives at a timely moment. In a world where popular culture often leans toward dystopian narratives, Another World Is Possible dares to suggest otherwise a brighter, more balanced future grounded in long-term vision, environmental pragmatism, and community.
At its heart, the exhibition unfolds across seven thematic chapters, each serving as a portal into different modes of speculative futures. Together, they weave a vibrant and emotionally resonant journey of over 100 works contributed by more than 40 artists, designers, architects, writers, and filmmakers.
Notable contributors include global names such as Björk, Andrew Thomas Huang, Osheen Siva, Ken Liu, Serwah Attafuah, Shiro Fujioka, and Osborne Macharia, alongside prominent Singapore-based creatives including Debbie Ding, Ming Wong, Ong Kian Peng, Youths in Balaclava, WOHA, Jason Pomeroy, and Finbarr Fallon.
From immersive installations to visionary architecture, these works draw inspiration from Indigenous, Afrofuturist, and Asian perspectives, offering layered visions of futures that are inclusive and generous. Importantly, 16 locally based contributors explore how technology, culture, and ecology can be harmonized, ensuring the stories resonate with Singapore’s own evolving identity.
Another World Is Possible is presented in collaboration with ACMI in Melbourne, Australia and continues conversations from ACMI’s earlier exhibition, The Future & Other Fictions (2024–2025). While ACMI’s version focused on how speculative worlds were imagined on screens, ArtScience Museum expands this inquiry to embrace architecture, design, literature, and collective creativity.
Highlights: A chapter-by-chapter walk-through
Chapter 1 — We Are Authors of the End
This opening gallery asks visitors to track how cinema and television have taught us to expect dark, familiar dystopias: rain-slick neon cities, surveillance, ecological collapse. The chapter uses montage and historic reference to show how that visual language narrows our imagination and asks us to set those inherited images down before attempting new worlds. The chapter includes new commissions that reframe endings as beginnings.
Chapter 2 — Imagination Echoes Through Us All
Moving from screen to page and object, this chapter explores speculative fiction as a plural, cross-media practice. Works draw on Indigenous and regional knowledge to imagine futures grounded in different cultural logics; the gallery includes projects that rework ritual, music and craft as engines of new worlds.
Chapter 3 — It Begins with Freedom
A focus on Afrofuturism and Black speculative worlds follows: the chapter foregrounds artists who place African diasporic experience and cosmology at the centre of futurity. Photography, film and costume combine to imagine technologically adept futures that remain rooted in history, ceremony and creative sovereignty.
Chapter 4 — Silk, Spice, a Punk Paradise
Here the exhibition turns explicitly to Asia and Southeast Asia, introducing silkpunk, spicepunk and islandpunk speculative strands that retell the future through local myth, maritime history and material culture. The works in this space propose regionally specific technological imaginaries and hybrid traditions, suggesting futures built from both craft and collective memory.
Chapter 5 — From Console to Cosmos
This chapter examines videogames, interactive experiences and play as laboratories of worldbuilding. Playable projects and game-inspired installations put visitors in the position of co-creators: agency, choice and systems thinking become ways to rehearse alternative social and ecological outcomes.
Chapter 6 — A World Becoming
Designers, architects and artists here propose large-scale technical and social propositions buoyant farms, weather-shaping ideas, repair-oriented industry and dense biodiverse cities that translate speculative imagination into tangible design directions. This gallery balances plausible technological scenarios with the social and political choices that would make them possible.
Chapter 7 — This Future Island City
The finale is an explicit conversation with Singapore’s civic project: how long-term planning, environmental pragmatism and collective action have helped shape a distinct “island city” futurism. Architects and studios whose work imagines nature and infrastructure in closer dialogue contribute to this final argument: futures are built together, and place matters.
Another World Is Possible is more than an exhibition, it is a call to imagine differently, to see beyond inherited stories of fear, to embrace futures that are multiple, equitable, and shaped by many hands. Whether you are drawn by art, architecture, literature, design, or just curious about what comes next, this exhibition suggests that the future isn’t fixed, it’s something to be built, shared, and envisioned.
Another World Is Possible
Dates: 13 September 2025 – 22 February 2026
Location: ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands.
Admission for Singapore residents: Adult from S$18, concession from S$15. For tourists: Adult from S$20, concession from S$16.
Opening hours: Sun–Thu 10 am to 7 pm (last entry 6 pm); Fri–Sat 10 am to 9 pm (last entry 8:15 pm).
Find out more and get your tickets at https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhibitions/another-world-is-possible.html
