Sustainable Futures
Now Showing
12 Jun – 31 Aug 2026
Featuring a diverse line-up of award-winning films and documentaries, Sustainable Futures Film Festival 2026 celebrates stories of ocean science and environmental urgency through a cinematic lens.
Festival Programmes
Presented in collaboration with Film Nerve, this hands-on workshop offers a rare opportunity to create a 16mm film entirely without a camera or darkroom.
Explore the basics of chemigrams in 16mm filmmaking through sustainable approaches, such as using an eco-developer made from plants, and applying plant matter and everyday household materials on film strips to create abstract forms, patterns and textures.
How can we emotionally navigate the realities of ecological crisis, and what happens when we make space to reflect on those feelings together?
Presented in collaboration with Post-Growth Singapore, this programme begins with a screening of Climate in Therapy as a starting point, followed by a gentle facilitation and conversation about navigating climate emotions.
Join us for an afternoon of watching, discussing and reflecting together.
Ongoing Sustainability Highlights
From 9 Jun
Join us for a guided tour as we descend from sunlit waters to the ocean’s depths, featuring OceanX footage, rare specimens, and advanced research. Led by an Education Specialist, the tour uncovers how underwater ecosystems shape the climate and life on Earth—and why the ocean’s future is inseparable from ours.
What does it mean to live in a “City in Nature”?
Through a guided nature-art trail around the museum and its surrounding green spaces, participants will observe, get creative and reflect using a digital journal.
Learn about environmentally conscious design through a tour of the museum, followed by a reflective activity, anchored around how the design of ArtScience Museum contributes to its sustainability efforts.
Coming Soon
28 Aug – 31 Dec 2026
Discover the origins of life with Sir David Attenborough in this immersive VR journey that travels back 3.5 billion years into the past.
Past Editions
Sustainable Futures 2025
How can an interrelated and interdependent future for humans and more-than-humans emerge?
ArtScience Museum presents a seasonal focus exploring imaginaries that could orientate us towards catalysing change and action to shape real and sustainable collective futures.
Explore diverse perspectives and on-ground learnings through a nature-in-focus film festival, a forum that explores our youths’ unique paradigm around ecological justice, digital nature art trails and upcycling workshops on environmental empathy, and installations that dream up fantastical ecosystems of imaginary flora and fauna and hypothetical realities.
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Where's the Nature: Connecting Global Policies with Singapore’s Green Vision
26 Jul 2025Free Admission
What connections exist between international environmental negotiations and Singapore’s national efforts to conserve biodiversity? How can understanding global biodiversity goals empower young people to drive meaningful change at home? -
Future/Now: Youth Voices for Climate Conservation
26 Jul 2025Free Admission
In a rapidly changing climate and biodiversity landscape, how are youth voices shaping the national agenda? What does meaningful youth participation in environmental governance look like and how can we ensure it lasts? -
Tracing Our Terrain: Land, Legacy and the City in Nature
23 Aug 2025Free Admission
From kampongs and plantations to public housing and nature parks, Singapore’s land-use story is one of rapid transformation. In the process of building a global city, what have we gained and what has nature lost? Can development and nature find common ground? -
Shifting Shores: Coastal Futures in a Changing Climate
30 Aug 2025Free admission
What does the future of Singapore’s coastline look like, and what do we stand to lose or gain as we reshape our coasts for protection? How can nature-based solutions coexist with hard infrastructure as sea levels rise and coastal developments accelerate? -
We Are Nature Too
7 & 21 Jun 2025Embark on a physical and digital exploration of ArtScience Museum through a nature art trail and workshop to deepen our appreciation for nature and understand how we impact the world around us.
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Create an Eco-Friendly Bag
14 & 28 Jun, 5 & 26 Jul 2025Learn about plastics and sustainability practices and how to use simple sewing skills to craft your own eco-friendly bag made from recycled materials.
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Sustainable Futures Film Festival
29 Jun – 30 Jul 2025Free Admission with Registration
A line-up of award-winning films capturing the most pressing environmental challenges of our present moment. From portraits of young activists to the snapshots of a planet in crisis, these stories will leave you shocked, outraged and yet hopeful for what’s to come. -
Artland by Do Ho Suh and Children
31 May – 14 Sep 2025Artland is a ticketed experience lasting approximately 30 minutes. Each visitor will receive two tubs of coloured clay to sculpt their own creation
Sustainable Futures 2023
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Waves of Change Festival 2023
5 – 27 Aug 2023Free Admission
The Waves of Change Festival is an annual celebration of the big blue to inspire love, care and action for the ocean. Featuring thought provoking conservation art, a selection of stunning films, and talks by experts in their field, we hope visitors of all ages will enjoy this safe space to learn, reflect and explore opportunities for change. -
Drop-in Sessions: Super Senses of the Wild
1 – 4, 7 – 11, 14 – 18, 21 – 25 Aug, 1 Sep 2023Complimentary, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Find out more how bats use echoes from the sounds they create to help them hunt in the dark. With their big, wide ears, it helps them to capture these sounds that bounce back to ‘see’ their prey. While we are not able to have this unique ability, find out how bigger ears could make us hear better! -
MeshMinds 3.0 : ArtxTechforGood
1 – 30 Sep 2023Free Admission
Meshminds 3.0 is a collaborative showcase of interactive and immersive digital experiences by Singapore creative technology studios, MeshMinds and Metamo Industries. The showcase highlights the work of their award-winning digital artists, virtual world-builders and filmmakers who blend art, technology and sustainability to tell stories that create change. -
Creative Recharge: September Holiday Programmes
4 - 29 Sep 2023Mix of free and ticketed admission
Recharge your creativity this September holidays at ArtScience Museum. Join us for an array of activities ranging from educational tours, crafty drop-ins to a digital storytelling workshop based on the book, Ubin Elephant by Alan John -
Exploring Nature’s Tapestry
Various dates in Sep and Oct 2023Come meet the passionate conservationists and biodiversity experts featured in Sensory Odyssey exhibition in this programme of engaging talks and nature walks. Join us to reconnect deeply with nature and explore ways we can conserve biodiversity today.
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The Ocean Imagineer’s Work Studio
2 Sep – 1 Oct 2023Free Admission
Witness the development of revolutionary sea vessels in ArtScientist-In-Residence Cesar Jung-Harada’s working space. -
Net Zero is Not Enough: Cesar Jung-Harada and Sarah Ichioka
22 Sep 20236 – 7pm
Free Admission with Registration
Cesar Jung-Harada and Sarah Ichioka discuss the need for regenerative design and greater ecology in design futures.
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