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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 6d

From the moment you step aboard, you feel the convergence of science, storytelling, and technology.
The Summit gathered oceanographers, technologists, and filmmakers to imagine new relationships with the sea.

Amid it all, we announced a new OceanX exhibition opening next year at ArtScience Museum.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve just spent a few days aboard OceanXplorer, the remarkable research vessel of OceanX, which has been docked in Singapore for the OceanX Summit.
It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine.

oxsummit.oceanx.org

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 6d

As we move deeper into the exhibition, we encounter other artists and designers like Osborne Macharia, Serwah Attafuah and Leeroy New. They draw from their own cultural lineages, Indigenous, African, Asian, to create visions of futures which are possible, plausible and maybe even desirable.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve been reflecting on the themes of our exhibition, Another World Is Possible

From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care.

www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 22d

At our symposium We Dream in Futures and the Design Futures Forum, Liam spoke with urgency about why he makes these works.

He reminds us that world-building is not just an artistic gesture - it is a political, ethical, and environmental act. The futures we imagine shape the future we make.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 22d

Liam Young’s cinematic worlds are at the heart of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum. We’re proud to present the global premiere of World Machine, Liam’s new work tracing Asia’s role in AI. Alongside it are Planet City, After the End and The Great Endeavour.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 26d

Another World is Possible is inspired by where we come from - Singapore.
Here, the future is cautiously optimistic, and shaped through planning, imagination and collective effort.
At a time when the world feels more uncertain than ever, this is our gift to the world on Singapore’s birthday.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 26d

From Indigenous cosmology to Asian futurism, from video games to radical design responses to the climate crisis, Another World explores world-building as a practice. The 100 works by 40 designers, artists, and architects suggest a future alive with possibility

www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 26d

I’m thrilled to announce that Another World Is Possible is now open at ArtScience Museum. Co-curated by me, my team and Liam Young, this is a show about how we imagine the future.
At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Sep 2

For In the Ether, quantum mechanics is also explored through art. Libby Heaney, Semiconductor, Amy Karle, and Yu-Chen Wang present new works created with scientists, transforming entanglement, time, and uncertainty into shared experience.
We’re really excited about this year’s festival. Come visit!

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m excited to announce In the Ether: A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology, opening 6 Sep at ArtScience Museum. Marking the International Year of Quantum Science, we bring quantum physics into public space together with CQT and Ethereum Singapore.

www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Sep 1

When we close conversations down or treat futures work like a private holding, it gets harder to build trust, to share, to grow the work together.

The best futures I’ve seen come out of openness. when people are generous with ideas, and willing to be in dialogue, even when it’s messy.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Sep 1

In my experience, futures work flourishes when it is generous, when people collaborate openly, build on what’s already growing, and share credit and context. The care we have for each another’s work strengthens it.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s important to operate with care and respect when bringing futures work into places where it’s already unfolding, respecting those who hold space and nurture communities. I’d like to think that when we step into each other’s worlds, we do so with regard for the people tending the ground.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Aug 16

From planetary cities to silk punk, world-building takes centre stage in Another World Is Possible.
Part of our SG60 season, and co-produced with ACMI and DesignSingapore, it features over 100 exhibits by WOHA, Liam Young, Ong Kian Peng & more imagining the future from a Singaporean point of view.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Aug 16

I’m delighted to announce that our next exhibition at ArtScience Museum is Another World Is Possible.
It’s a show close to my heart, inviting us to imagine hopeful, distinctly Asian futures through art, design, film, and architecture. It opens on 13 September.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Aug 2

The essay brings together the work of scientists and artists — from Yakov Zeldovich to Tomás Saraceno (@tsaraceno.bsky.social) — to reflect on how form travels across scale, and how we might draw from both science and art to sense the structure of the universe. 🧪⚛️🔭

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Aug 2

I’ve just published a new essay, Reading the Cosmic Web, inspired by Mark Neyrinck's Rivers of Galaxies in @aeon.co. It explores how the filamentary structure of the universe is echoed in rivers, mycelium, spiderwebs, and other branching forms of life.

honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/r...

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 29

The Quantum Turn is a curatorial reflection on quantum theory as a way of thinking. It explores how ideas like uncertainty, indeterminacy and non-linearity can shape art and culture.
It also traces our work with CQT (@quantumlah.bsky.social). Plus, it looks ahead to Quantum Crossroads in NZ. 🧪

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 29

We’ve just launched the first project in ArtScience Museum’s programme for the International Year of Quantum - Qlimate Tongues by Libby Heaney.

It prompted a new essay - The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum Science.

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The Quantum Turn

The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum ScienceBy Honor Harger29 June 2025 The strange logics of quantum mechanics have been with us for more than a century. This…

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 11

It was a joy to read “The light beyond sight” so thanks for writing it. And thank you also to @aeon.co too for consistently publishing fantastic science journalism. I’m looking forward to your book in 2026!

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 11

From neutrino detectors to radio interferometers, these instruments reshape cognition itself.
I trace this through past curatorial work, artistic practice, and a long-standing fascination with astronomy and philosophy.

honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/t...

Towards a Cognitive Astronomy

Towards a Cognitive Astronomy: How Observing the Universe Extends the Mind By Honor Harger 8 June 2025 I think a lot about astronomy. It’s embedded in how I work, think, and pay attention to the wo…

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 11

What if astronomical instruments didn’t just show us the universe — but became part of how we think?

I’ve written a new piece, Towards a Cognitive Astronomy. It’s inspired by the recent essay by @coreyspowell.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
It’s about tools, thought, and telescopes. 🧪✨

Towards a Cognitive Astronomy

Towards a Cognitive Astronomy: How Observing the Universe Extends the Mind By Honor Harger 8 June 2025 I think a lot about astronomy. It’s embedded in how I work, think, and pay attention to the wo…

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 1

The reopening is part of Sustainable Futures, our new season at ArtScience Museum.
It reflects our ongoing commitment to shaping the emotional and perceptual tools we need to live differently with each other, and with the more-than-human world.

honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/s...

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · Jun 1

This weekend we reopened Future World, our permanent exhibition at ArtScience Museum with 4 new artworks by teamLab that explore nature as a living, responsive system. These installations respond to our presence inviting a deeper connection with the natural world.

www.teamlab.art/e/artscience...

[Official] teamLab Future World, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Mar 12, 2016 - Permanent ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

www.teamlab.art

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