Coastal Survivability - A speculative exhibition exploring climate futures through fictional world-building.

Weight of the Catch by Tiew Fang Kee

Is your seafood really aordable? Weigh your seafood to find out its true cost. Discover how your consumption habits can either drive ocean degradation or recovery. Sometimes it's not just about what we pay at the cashier, it's what the ocean pays for us.

Learning the Ocean’s Language by Nur Aliyah Binte Mohammad Noor Azman

By 2035, children grow up fluent in marine forecasting. In this playroom, weather is not memorized but felt. Here, young minds learn that the movements of fish or the stillness of sea cucumbers can signal tomorrow’s conditions. Toys become tools, and bedtime stories become training. This space invites you to imagine how weather literacy might evolve—playful, sensory, and embedded in everyday life. What if every child could read the ocean like a book?

The Melted Menagerie by Bridget Lim

Set within the curated space of a taxidermist’s shop, this exhibition explores the transformative impact of rising sea levels on animal evolution. Reimagined skeletal forms reveal how species might morph to survive extreme environments, each specimen telling a speculative story of adaptation, extinction, and resilience in a world reshaped by environmental collapse.

Invasive Bites by Tee Ling Wah

A transformative hawker store reimagines the Golden Apple Snail, an invasive species in Singapore’s waters, into a unique hawker delicacy. From Shell Popiah to Snail Satay, tradition and resilience come together on the plate. What was once a pest is now a nutrient-rich ingredient, addressing the challenges of Singapore’s fragile food security. In a nation open to novel food possibilities, can overlooked abundance become tomorrow’s staple?

Water: Reimagined by Andrea Lau Yi Xuan

Imagine a Singapore where water springs from the sea—naturally purified by mangroves. Grov transforms this quiet coastal magic into fresh, drinkable water. Among the round shelves of origami bottles, explore resilience, transformation, and the genius of nature. Green. Resilient. Original. Vital. Sip the impossible.

Plankware by Cheong Wen Xuan

Plankware is invisible wellness woven into daily life. No pills. No powders. No apps. This lifestyle flatware delivers essential nutrients like vitamin A, omega-3, and phytoplankton-derived antioxidant through the act of eating. Completely undetectable in taste or smell, it’s perfect for that one picky-eater friend or fussy toddlers. No routines changed. Just health integrated in the ritual we love most: eating.

Plastic Isn't Forever by Tan Yee Jing

Step into a speculative lab where future materials are imagined and tested. Mangrove algae, one day grown alongside restored habitats such as Singapore’s upcoming Mandai Mangrove and Mudflat Nature Park, is explored as an alternative to everyday plastics, opening possibilities for a world where what we create can return to nature.

Still Waters by Elijah Chia

Still Waters offers a gentle farewell for both loved ones and the coast’s cleanliness. Instead of cremation and scattering ashes into the sea, we focus on aquamation and replanting seagrass meadows. In this serene resting place, memories grow, held not in stone but in the meadows, where every goodbye becomes beautifully alive.

Tidewatchers by Nigel Sng Wei Jian

Tidewatchers cast lines into polluted waters using reactive lures shaped with textures drawn from nature. These lures don’t catch life, they reveal what threatens it. Dressed in custom outfits, Tidewatchers retrieve each transformed lure in quiet reflection. Each catch becomes a record, tracing the fading line between land and sea, memory and displacement.

Rising Returns by Masha Nyanna Wee Junyadi

In 2050, the sea took the world. In 2100, her mind went with the tides. Now at 70, Yara Wee lives in a flooded future, battling memory loss and rising tides. Through RE:CAP, an AI-powered time capsule, she relives fragments of her submerged youth. In "Rising Returns", sit in Yara's shoes and immerse yourself with the headphones provided, as this speculative installation explores aging, identity, and what endures when both land and self begin to fade.

Adapting to the Future Oceans by Aveline Ang Swee Leng

Climate change is rewriting the story of our oceans—corals are bleaching, ecosystems are shifting, and survival hangs in the balance. But not all hope is lost. Some corals are quietly adapting, evolving in ways we’re just beginning to understand. Through a fictional marine biologist’s desk, this project uncovers clues to the future of coral life—and its fight to endure.