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Food security has been a perennial concern in Singapore, which sees the nation-state importing more than 90% of its food and allocating only 1% of its land to agriculture. These challenges are intensified by disruptions to global supply chains due to…

During this gathering, Liz Liu, Research Assistant, will share about her practice as a colour maker working with plants and soil found in Singapore. The session will begin with a brief sharing of the colours she has documented as part of the local…

Join us for a walking and reading session exploring the intersection of art, ecologies, and local knowledge to reimagine relationships within Earth systems.   Taking inspiration from case studies in the newly published Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions…

Following the lecture “Knowing the Reef: Community Insight and Scientific Understanding” on 26 August 2025, the first gathering of our second cycle of the Climate Transformation Gatherings will take us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the coral culture…

Earth After will take place among artworks and words by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy featured in the exhibition Design Earth: Speculative Fiction for the Climate. Our entry point to this special exhibition visit will be Ong Kian Peng’s speculative…

Join us for an interactive workshop led by Eleanor Slade's research team (Tropical Ecology and Entomology Lab, NTU) and artist and insect conservation educator Wendy Zhang. In this gathering, we practice the 'arts of noticing' - using microscopes,…

Building on our first gathering Terraforming, this week’s gathering will continue our discussion on the Singapore Long Island Plan – framing a speculative inquiry into the cultural and architectural mechanisms of nature-centric design. Using…

The upcoming gathering delves into the complexities of Singapore’s Long Island Plan—a terraforming endeavour—following the inaugural Climate Transformation Sustainable Societies Lecture on ‘Coastal Defence Measures for Rising Tides: A Case Study on…

Coastal ecosystems and communities across islands such as Bintan and Singapore face existential threats of climate change-induced sea level rise and ocean warming. Industrial development adds to these pressures that expose coastal communities to…

In 2000, scholars Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer proposed the formal recognition of a new ‘Anthropocene’ epoch, a geological era defined by profound human modification of the global environment. How might we understand this epoch through…