ArtScience Museum – More than Human: Making With the Living World

ARTSCIENCE MUSEUM INVITES VISITORS TO RETHINK OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING WORLD

Originally developed by the Design Museum, London, and expanded by ArtScience Museum, More than Human: Making With the Living World makes its Asian debut in Singapore, inviting us to rethink who and what we design for

More than Human Making With the Living World

What can we learn from the ingenuity of the living world, and how might designing with it help create a better future for people and the planet? ArtScience Museum explores these questions in More than Human: Making With the Living World, a major exhibition opening on 28 November. Bringing together remarkable ideas and solutions found in nature, the exhibition invites visitors to consider plants, animals and ecosystems as active participants in shaping more thoughtful and sustainable ways of living.

Making its Asia debut, More than Human presents over 140 artworks, projects, immersive installations and interactive experiences by nearly 55 artists, designers, architects, researchers and communities. Spanning art, design, science and technology, the exhibition enables visitors to imagine how humans and other species might thrive together. Originally developed by the Design Museum in London in collaboration with Future Observatory, its national research programme for the green transition, supported by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Singapore edition has been expanded with 25 works co-curated by ArtScience Museum and supported by DesignSingapore Council foregrounding perspectives from Asia, including regional cultural traditions and wisdom.

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“At ArtScience Museum, we celebrate human curiosity and creativity, and there is so much in the living world to inspire both. It was important to us that we bring our own perspective to this exhibition. Building on the Design Museum’s original show, we have brought in voices and knowledge from Singapore and Southeast Asia, connecting its ideas with the ways we understand and live alongside nature in this part of the world,” said Angelita Teo, Vice President of Attractions at Marina Bay Sands.

Justin McGuirk, Director of Future Observatory said, “The More than Human exhibition captures an emerging movement of art and design that is dedicated to the flourishing of the natural systems we depend upon. These practices are exploring what it means to heal our broken relationship with the living world. While much of the work in the exhibition is nascent or exploratory, it represents a radical shift in worldview towards humans using design not just for their own needs but to support other species and their ecosystems. More than Human is what design needs to become in the 21st century.”

Kelp Council by Julia Lohmann. Installation view at the Design Museum, London. Exhibition photography: Luke Hayes

“Design has the power to change not just how we see the world, but how we live in it. The most meaningful breakthroughs often begin with a shift in perspective. More than Human challenges us to rethink our relationship with the natural world we inhabit, so as to reshape how we live alongside other species to create a future where all forms of life can thrive. We’re proud to support this expanded Singapore edition of the exhibition, bringing Asian perspectives to the question of who and what we design for,” says Dawn Lim, executive director of Design Singapore Council.

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Presented across three thematic sections, More than Human features an exhibition design by Singapore-based practice Lekker Architects, guiding visitors through spaces inspired by hedge mazes, archipelagos and woodland environments. Highlights include Berl-Berl by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, a large-scale immersive audiovisual installation that transports visitors into an ever-changing digital wetland inspired by the landscape that became Berlin; Aki Inomata’s How to Carve a Sculpture which transforms wood gnawed by beavers into works that question whether creativity belongs to humans alone; and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s Pollinator Pathmaker: Perceptual Field 7SzzLn6GnY97DSo7hCSLMf , an eight – metre tapestry, which imagines gardens designed around the needs of pollinating
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The Singapore edition brings Southeast Asian perspectives through new and adapted works by artists and collaborators including Bewilder, Lêna Bùi, Ines Katamso, Khvay Samnang, Zarina Muhammad, Isa Pengskul, Citra Sasmita, Studio SKLIM, Superlative Futures, thesupersystem & VAAS, among others. The exhibition will also feature collaborations with and loans from local institutions like National Parks Board (NParks), National University of Singapore’s Experimental Marine Ecology Laboratory (NUS EMEL) and Asian Civilisations Museum. Highlights include NParks’ Bee Trail, NUS EMEL’s Fish Houses, and traditional Southeast Asian fish traps from Asian Civilisations Museum. These local partnerships are central to ArtScience Museum‘s approach, ensuring that global conversations explored are enriched by Singapore-based research, expertise and perspectives.

Forest Mind by Ursula Biemann. Installation view at the Design Museum, London. Exhibition photography: Luke Hayes

Visitors can also experience immersive installations by internationally renowned collectives and artists such as Marshmallow Laser Feast, Ursula Biemann and Zheng Mahler. Through sensory encounters, their works reveal ecological systems and interconnections often hidden from view, inviting visitors to experience the living world from new perspectives.

More than Human: Making with the Living World runs from 28 November 2026 to 16 May 2027. Tickets to the exhibition will be available for purchase at all Marina Bay Sands box offices and online from 28 October onwards. For more information on the exhibition, please refer here.

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