A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second. That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...

In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that. Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future. I've written some reflections on it here:

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/t...

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. 🧪✨

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...

This week, we launch the Sustainable Futures season at ArtScience Museum, with the reopening of Future World featuring new works by teamLab, the Southeast Asian premiere of Artland by Do Ho Suh & a new ecological film festival. In this essay, I reflect on why we continue to return to nature.

Earlier this year, I took part in two different, but connected, gatherings: the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication in Sharjah and the CERN Art and Science Summit in Geneva. I’ve written a short report reflecting on those events, and my curatorial work at ArtScience Museum.

I’ve just returned from the opening of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, where the question of what architecture can still do lingered across pavilions, prototypes, and planetary debates. 750 participants,lots of trees, robots, AI-generated cities, bioreactive materials & geoengineering tools.

Physicists have confirmed the existence of plastic ice, a phase which is not quite solid, not quite liquid. It was discovered by the Institut Laue-Langevin using quasi-elastic neutron scattering. It’s probably forming deep inside big icy moons like Europa, Callisto or Ganymede. 🧪

Just back from visiting teamLab Phenomena in Abu Dhabi. Still feeling somewhat dazed by the Levitation Void. It’s rare to walk into a building-sized installation and to literally not understand what you are seeing. A singular, unsettling, special experience. teamlab.art/w/levitation...

Strange new research into colour perception. “There is no way to convey that colour in an article or on a monitor. […] The whole point is that this is not the colour we see, it’s just not. The colour we see is a version of it, but it absolutely pales by comparison with the experience of olo.”

This new essay is a great primer on Assembly Theory, one of the more compelling attempts to rethink how we understand life, complexity, and emergence, developed by @saraimari.bsky.social & @leecronin.bsky.social. longnow.org/ideas/physic...

A 7.7 quake at 10km depth is devastating. The scale of loss in Myanmar will be unimaginable. For context: Christchurch 2011 was 6.2 at 5km. This is worse, in a country already on its knees. I can’t stop thinking about what people there are going through. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Extraordinary new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest dark energy might be changing over time rather than being a constant force. If confirmed, this could upend our understanding of cosmic expansion and the universe’s fate. www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...

Over the weekend, we had the great pleasure of opening the Asian premiere of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, with Iris herself at ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Featuring 140 of her works, the exhibition traces a journey from the ocean to the cosmos. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...

Physicist Eva Llabrés teamed up with marine biologists to create a biophysical model to predict coral reef growth. Using morphogenetics and computational ecology, they show reef structures follow deep geometric rules. Understanding this could reshape how we approach coral restoration. 🧪

I am delighted to announce Mirror Mirror: Journey Into the Mind at ArtScience Museum, part of our 2025 season Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human. At a time when AI dominates global conversations, this season shifts the focus back to human intelligence, and how we think and feel. (1/3)

Just back from an incredible visit to Louvre Abu Dhabi. Jean Nouvel’s breathtaking dome casts shifting patterns of light, creating a serene almost dreamlike atmosphere. Inside, the galleries bring together stories from Africa, Oceania, Asia and Europe, making deep connections between civilizations.

This is a great Nature article on bats as the OG biohackers. They host deadly viruses without getting sick, live far longer than they should & avoid the inflammatory diseases that plague other mammals. Flight rewired their immune systems, metabolism & DNA repair. 🧪🦇 Cf @auditorynerves.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, a season at ArtScience Museum. At a time dominated by conversations about AI, Mind and Body brings the focus back to what it means to be human beings, through exhibitions and programmes. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...

Stuck in bed with the flu and looking for inspirational articles, images or videos to watch. Can you send me some suggestions?

As more users flock here from flying platforms it’s clear that social media is splintering into smaller, federated spaces. It’s empowering, yes, but also risks turning into echo chambers. @noupside.bsky.social asks how do we keep diverse, meaningful dialogue alive in this fractured landscape?

The World Monuments Fund has added the Moon to their watch list, the first off-world site to be recognised. Whilst the Outer Space Treaty bans sovereignty claims in space, it says nothing about cultural heritage. So what happens to lunar relics in an age of Space 2.0? www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Struggling to put into words how much the loss of David Lynch hurts. He was a cartographer of the subconscious, mapping the strange, the dark and the beautiful in ways no one else dared. He was our guide to the weird & sublime. As Harmony Korine said, he “absorbed the embers of America’s wildness”.

Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli explores the nonbinary nature of the universe scientifically and personally. Their work on hadronization shows how the building blocks of matter defy simple classification. It’s a reminder that the universe is anything but binary, and nor are those who study it. 🧪

This is one of my favourite pictures of @nicolasnova.bsky.social taken during a visit to @cern.bsky.social after Lift11. I was so enamoured by the particle accelerators that I only have photographs of friends alongside giant physics machines. So this is Nicolas. With Collider. How he’ll be missed.

Struggling to process the sudden loss of @nicolasnova.bsky.social. A true ethnographer of futures, Nicolas’ work shaped how we see design and technology. His conference, Lift was life-changing for me. He reminded us to see the world as it could be. Rest well, Nicolas. You will be deeply missed.

Rewatched Tarkovsky’s Solaris and I’m struck by how ahead of its time it feels on AI. It raises big questions about simulated consciousness, authenticity, and the ethics of creating entities that can suffer. Feels like a haunting precursor to films like Her and many of today’s pressing AI debates. 🤖

What an absolutely delightful thread to start 2025. The replies here are full of regenerative visions of possible futures. Thanks for inviting these micro stories, @bethsawin.bsky.social. And thanks for pointing to it @jdcruz.bsky.social. 🦋

A new study shows that great whales can live for over 200 years. Their extraordinary longevity was likely hidden by centuries of industrial whaling, which erased the elders from the seas. If we leave them alone, these giants can fulfill lifespans that stretch across centuries. 🧪🐋

A new year. Fragile beginnings, precarious hope. I’m choosing to focus on what grows, what rises, and what’s worth nurturing. Here’s to 2025 where we find the clarity to see the good and the courage to make it real.

Happy New Year! Here’s to a 2025 as dazzling as the view from the SkyPark in Singapore, where we said farewell to 2024 surrounded by loved ones. Wishing you a year filled with big dreams, boundless generosity, and just the right touch of unpredictability to keep life exciting. See you in the future!

This delightful piece by @mariapopova.bsky.social explores the unexpected connection between needlework and astronomy. It opens with Maria Mitchell, who in 1878 described the needle as an instrument of the mind, and Caroline Herschel, who alternated between discovering comets and doing needlework.🧪

Back in Singapore. Back in the #rainforest.

Physicists have theorized a bold way to entangle two particles of very different kinds – a unit of light, or a photon, with a phonon, the quantum equivalent of a wave of sound. “Optoacoustic entanglement” may be resistant to external noise, one of the biggest problems facing quantum technology. 🧪

Merry Christmas from Dunedin in New Zealand!

Winding down an utterly frantic 2024 in my beautiful and beloved Singapore. I know 2025 will start even more intensely. So, trying to find, if not days, then hours, of calm before the end of the year. Sending joy, inspiration and affection to all of you. 🦋

While everyone’s hyped about quantum computing, this work by MIT shows optical computing might worth a closer look. By using light, it slashes #AI energy use and speeds up neural network tasks to under half a nanosecond. Scalable, sustainable, and possibly game-changing. Via @korantu.bsky.social 🧪

This is an extraordinary role in an amazing organisation working for a visionary leader.

Some of the thinking behind our futures work at ArtScience Museum has been deeply influenced by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social something I give thanks for in this piece. They remind us that bridging the gap between imagining and acting is critical to enable better futures.

My essay in Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums focuses on a belief that drives my work: that museums have a responsibility to help audiences imagine better futures. If we can’t envision sustainable, hopeful futures how can we bring them into being? honorharger.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/c...

Excited that my copy of Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums is here! This remarkable book, edited by @kristinalford.bsky.social was launched 3 weeks ago at the Future Orientated Museums (FORMS) meeting in Dubai. I’m honoured to have an essay in it. honorharger.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/c...