SPECIAL EVENT

Sustainable Futures

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.

Programmes

Artland by Do Ho Suh and Children

31 May – 14 Sep
ArtScience Laboratory
Ticketed

Welcome to the imaginative world of Artland, an ever-growing and evolving series of islands inhabited by creatures and plants sculpted from modelling clay.

View details
Create an Eco-Friendly Bag

14 & 28 Jun, 5 & 26 Jul
11am
Ripple Room, ArtScience Laboratory
Ticketed

Learn about plastics and sustainability practices and how to use simple sewing skills to craft your own eco-friendly bag made from recycled materials.

View details

Book tickets
Sustainable Futures Film Festival

29 Jun – 30 Jul
ArtScience Cinema, Level 4

This July, catch award-winning cinematic stories about the deep but fragile connection between nature and humanity at ArtScience Museum. From tender portraits of wildlife rehabilitation to sojourns into sublime landscapes slowly eroded by climate change, Sustainable Futures Film Festival features a line-up of visually immersive films that are both an ode and plea to protect our planet.

View details
ArtScience Encounters with Libby Heaney: Qlimate Tongues

From 20 Jun
Oculus, Basement 2
Free Admission

Qlimate Tongues is a multi-channel sound installation that explores the climate, its entanglements and the impact of quantum technologies. In the work, we hear hybrid human and non-human voices that are generated by artificial intelligence and hypnotic sounds that are generated by quantum computing, inviting contemplation on how advance technologies shape and entangle with life on earth.

Image courtesy of Andrea Rossetti and the artist.

View details
Where's the Nature: Connecting Global Policies with Singapore’s Green Vision

26 Jul (Sat)
2pm – 4pm
The Sun, Basement 1
Free 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?

View details
Future/Now: Youth Voices for Climate and Conservation

26 Jul (Sat)
4.30pm – 6pm
The Sun, Basement 1
Free 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?

View details
Tracing Our Terrain: Land, Legacy and the City in Nature

23 Aug (Sat)
2pm – 4pm
The Sun, Basement 1
Free 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?

View details
Shifting Shores: Coastal Futures in a Changing Climate

30 Aug (Sat)
2pm – 4pm
The Sun, Basement 1
Free 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?

View details
We Are Nature Too

7 & 21 Jun
11am
Ripple Room, ArtScience Laboratory
Ticketed

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.

View details

Book tickets

Show More Show Less

Waves of Change Festival 2023

5 – 27 Aug
Free 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.

View details
Drop-in Sessions: Super Senses of the Wild

1 – 4, 7 – 11, 14 – 18, 21 – 25 Aug, 1 Sep
Complimentary, 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!

View details
MeshMinds 3.0: ArtxTechforGood

1 – 30 Sep
Free 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.

View details
Creative Recharge: September Holiday Programmes

4 - 29 Sep
Mix 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.

View details
Exploring Nature’s Tapestry

Various dates in Sep and Oct

Come 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.

View details
The Ocean Imagineer’s Work Studio

2 Sep – 1 Oct
Free Admission

Witness the development of revolutionary sea vessels in ArtScientist-In-Residence Cesar Jung-Harada’s working space.

View details
Net Zero is Not Enough: Cesar Jung-Harada and Sarah Ichioka

22 Sep
6 – 7pm
Free Admission with Registration

Cesar Jung-Harada and Sarah Ichioka discuss the need for regenerative design and greater ecology in design futures.

View details