What a bizarre piece of censorship. I’m not even sure the president would deny this.

“Radio polars” are a magnetic white dwarf (the remnant of a Sun-like star) and a cooler red dwarf locked in a tight orbit.

Discovered through low-frequency radio astronomy, they act like unseen lighthouses, guiding our understanding of a dynamic, layered cosmos.

Didn’t DESI already discover this?

www.desi.lbl.gov/2024/04/22/d...

My new essay, It’s All Really There: The Electromagnetic Life of the Universe, explores how we live inside a vast ocean of plasma and radio waves. How everything from weather to light to radio signals, moves within the same electromagnetic field, and, as Feynman said, “it’s all really there!”

It brings together 105 works by more than 40 designers, artists, filmmakers, architects, and writers, who explore the future from multiple perspectives from Asia, Africa and the Pacific, before finally arriving in Singapore - where we are.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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. 🧪⚛️🔭