Another World Is Possible

ArtScience Museum, Singapore presents Another World is Possible.

 In a world saturated with dystopian imaginaries, where chaos, collapse, anxiety and ecological devastation dominate our visions of tomorrow, the exhibition Another World Is Possible emerges as an intervention of hope. Anchored by the practice of designer, director, BAFTA-nominated producer and exhibition co-curator Liam Young, the exhibition invites visitors to step inside abundant speculative worlds that urge us to examine how imagination and design are pertinent mediums in crafting tomorrow's possibilities. Another World Is Possible is not merely a showcase of speculative aesthetics—it is a research-led inquiry into the politics, poetics, and pluralities of futurity. 

Unfolding across seven thematic chapters, the exhibition interrogates the mechanisms through which futures are imagined, narrated, and materially constructed. Drawing from Indigenous, Afrofuturist, and Southeast Asian perspectives, it foregrounds worldbuilding as both critical methodology and creative resistance. Here, imagination is not escapism but praxis—a sandbox for cultural memory, ancestral knowledge, and radical possibility. Liam Young and Australian First Nations actress Natasha Wanganeen present After the End (2024), a speculative film depicting a post–fossil fuel future where stolen land has been returned to First Nations Peoples.  

In Southeast Asia, Singaporean artist Ming Wong casts Cantonese opera actors as space warriors. Filipino artist Leeroy New builds space-inspired wearable sculptures from discarded plastics, transforming waste into wonder. Thai artist Torlarp Larpjaroensook suspends an illuminated “space station” made from household objects of his Thai-Chinese heritage, turning everyday items into a chandelier-like vessel that explores the relationship between memory, culture and the future.  

Threading narratives of resilience, cautious optimism and ecological balance, these visions posit that imagination is not the domain of a few, but something innate in all of us. When channeled into speculative fiction, imagination becomes a tool not only for storytelling but for redesigning futures. It resists the myth of universality and instead asserts the multiplicity of futurity—situated in time, place and culture. 

Memory, agency, collaboration, and experimentation converge in these speculative engagements through participatory modes of imagination. Interactive worlds like Singaporean artist Debbie Ding’s New Village (2024)—a colonial town digitally reconstructed from oral histories—invites the player to become both inhabitant and guardian of a possible future that is not only imagined but enacted. Grounded in research and shaped by urgent planetary challenges, Singapore-based architect Jason Pomeroy presents his study on the development of circular floating farm systems that mitigate the potential consequences of global warming, sparking conversations on responsibility and collection action. Simultaneously, Singapore-based architects Finbarr Fallon, Annabelle Tan and Kai McLaughlin explore the possible rewilding process of modern cities in a provocative materialisation of Singapore’s unique futurist sensibility. 

Another World Is Possible deviates from a singular vision of the future to propose a methodology that is plural, situated, and collaborative. It invites visitors to imagine futures not as distant abstractions but as cultural practices—shaped by memory, materiality, and collective desire. In doing so, it reclaims the future as a space of agency, creativity, and hope. This exhibition is a call to artists, designers, thinkers, and citizens to participate in the ongoing work of worldbuilding. The future is not something we inherit—it is something we co-create. Another world is not only possible; it is already imagined here. 

Designers, artists and contributors include:
Serwah Attafuah, Conor Bateman, Big hART, bioSEA, Björk, CD Projekt Red, Centre for Strategic Futures, Chynna Campbell, Cheryl Chung, Saad Chinoy, James Clyne, Dezign Format, Die Gute Fabrik, Debbie Ding, Thomas Dubois, Gareth Edwards, Ethereum Foundation, Finbarr Fallon, Shiro Fujioka, General Interactive Co., GWS Living, Halogen, Andrew Thomas Huang, Olalekan Jeyifous, Torlarp Larpjaroensook, Ken Liu, Osborne Macharia, Kai McLaughlin, Leeroy New, Ong Kian Peng, Darius Ou, Jason Pomeroy, RAD+ar, Regency Enterprises, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Osheen Siva, Superlative Future, Sutu, The Love Punks, The Satellite Sisters, Syafiq Halid, Systmz, Annabelle Tan, Tent Futures, Thatgamecompany, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Ustwo Games, Natasha Wanganeen, WOHA, Ming Wong, Samatha Yap, Yong Zhen Zhou (Interactive Materials Lab), Liam Young, Youths in Balaclava, Clement Zheng (Interactive Materials Lab). 

 Another World Is Possible is co-curated by ArtScience Museum (Joel Chin, Adrian George, Honor Harger, Joshua Lau, Charleen Leo) and Liam Young, with the support of the DesignSingapore Council. 

The exhibition is a sequel to The Future and Other Fictions, curated and developed by ACMI, Melbourne, Australia, co-curated with Liam Young, and based on an original concept by Keri Elmsly. 

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