Futures Festival: Worlds in the Making
📅 13–15 November 2025
📍 ArtScience Museum, Singapore
An invitation to hold the future open.
Hosted by the ArtScience Museum, Futures Festival: Worlds in the Making is a celebration of plural futures — worlds that are generous, resilient, and already taking shape. Against the grain of dystopian imaginaries, the festival explores how imagination, care, and collaboration can become tools for building better worlds together.
Drawing from the museum’s ongoing exhibition Another World Is Possible, the festival unfolds as a living constellation of conversations, performances, installations, and participatory experiences. It invites visitors to think, sense, and make together — approaching world-building as a tangible, collective act of curiosity and care.
Programme Highlights
Symposium – “Generous Futures, Woven Together”
🗓 15 Nov | 11:00–18:45 | ArtScience Cinema | S$15
A cross-disciplinary gathering of architects, scientists, artists, writers, foresight practitioners, policymakers, and youth exploring how generosity, resilience, and interdependence can shape worlds in the making.
ArtScience Encounters
🎧 Sound as a portal to future worlds. Performances and installations by artists Syafiq Halid, Ichiko Aoba, and Louis Quek transform listening into an act of imagination, bridging ancestral memory, movement, and speculative soundscapes.
ArtScience Cinema & VR
🎥 Visions of the Future – daily screenings reimagining futures beyond Western dystopias.
🕶 The Drone Shepherd: A Planet City Graphic Novel in VR – the world premiere of Liam Young’s new immersive work expanding his acclaimed Planet City universe.
Drop-in Activities & Tours
💌 Postcards from the Future – share messages from your future self.
🎟 Curator-led Tours – guided explorations of Another World Is Possible and The Drone Shepherd VR experience.
The Futures Festival repositions imagination as infrastructure — a way to rehearse the worlds we want to inhabit. It’s a space where foresight, art, and empathy converge to remind us that the future is already in the making.