Examining what Design Holds for the Future of Singapore and beyond

Singapore Design Week 2025 is been held with the theme "Nation by Design" until September 21. It's been celebrating the city-state’s design legacy while looking boldly ahead to the future with a trio of key events and other programmes spotlighting the full spectrum of design’s role in shaping tomorrow. NPO ADF (Aoyama Design Forum) is proud to support the Design Singapore Council in presenting Singapore Design Week (SDW) 2025 as a media partner.

The festival's flagship initiatives, the Design Futures Forum organised by DesignSingapore Council. This year’s forum scheduled on September 17, co-curated by Aric Chen, Director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation and Ong Ker-Shing, Co-founder of Lekker Architects, and will center around the global changes around sustainability, climate change, emerging technologies, social equity and care which are becoming increasingly intertwined.

Complementing the forum, two specially presented exhibitions within the festival are to open. The ArtScience Museum premieres Another World is Possible opening for September 13 to February 22 2026, a speculative exercise in world-building through a distinctly Singapore lens. Spanning architecture, design, literature and cinema, the exhibition assembles over 100 works by close to 40 contributors, including 16 Singapore-based practitioners. Meanwhile, Sausage of the Future opening for September 11 to October 19 2025, Singapore Edition marks the Asian debut of food designer and researcher Carolien Niebling’s acclaimed project. Reimagining one of humanity’s most universal food forms, the exhibition investigates sustainability, innovation and food security.

Another World is Possible

A render of East Coast Parkway, Singapore, as conceived by WOHA, that will be among nearly 100 works exhibited as part of Another World is Possible. Picture courtesy of WOHA and Obilia

Another World is Possible at ArtScience Museum, a key event of Singapore Design Week co-curated by the Museum and filmmaker Liam Young reveals a series of seven visually stunning chapters on how we can design a more hopeful, sustainable, and equitable future.

Sausage of the Future

Sausage of the Future: Singapore Edition reinvents a classic food to challenge how we think about food, culture,
and sustainability. Picture courtesy of Studio Carolien Niebling

Created by food designer and researcher Carolien Niebling, Sausage of the Future: Singapore Edition makes its Asian debut with new sausage concepts inspired by local ingredients and developed with partners such as Huber’s Butchery, The Meatery, and Nithiya Laila of Brunch Bandits. Alongside Niebling’s sculptural food models from her hit project which has travelled to New York, Milan, London, Zurich and Eindhoven, visitors in Singapore get an expanded version with fresh content.

Singapore Design Week

One of Asia’s premier design festivals, Singapore Design Week (SDW) celebrates Singapore’s distinctive brand of creativity, exploring design through three defining festival pillars: Design Futures (the design of the future and the future of design), Design Marketplace (lifestyle trends with a spotlight on Southeast Asia) and Design Impact (innovative solutions for a better world). Organised by DesignSingapore Council, SDW is a celebration of creativity and innovation, championing thought leadership and showcasing the best of design from Singapore and beyond.