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Another Life for Another World By Honor Harger 16 August 2026 One of the projects I was most pleased to work on in my final year as Director of ArtScience Museum was Another World Is Possible, an exhibition I co-curated for Singapore’s 60th anniversary in 2025. The exhibition asked a deceptively simple question: where might Read More
In Defence of the Unfinished Future By Honor Harger 31 July 2026 A society can lose its future before it arrives. It happens when the people who will live longest in that future no longer believe they have a voice in defining it. When stable work, secure housing and a liveable environment begin to feel Read More
Futures, Imagined By Honor Harger 29 May 2026 If you think about it, imagination is actually a radical act. Because if you have an imagination, you can imagine yourself in a different future. René Denfeld I have been quoting the writer René Denfeld for years now. I first came across this passage in a piece Read More
A Full Turning of the Wheel: 12 Years at ArtScience Museum By Honor Harger 28 May 2026 In Chinese cosmology, twelve years marks the complete turning of the wheel, one full cycle of the calendar, the natural close of something and the beginning of the next. I have been director of ArtScience Museum for twelve Read More
Science is often portrayed as rational, abstract, numerical. But spend any time inside a particle physics laboratory and that distinction collapses. These are places of extraordinary aesthetic force, and the people who build and work in them know it. Beauty, for a physicist, is not incidental. It is often how they know they are on Read More
Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological FeelingBy Honor Harger3 April 2026 On a clear night, with no instrument other than your own eyes, you can find a faint smear of light in the constellation Andromeda. It looks like almost nothing. But what you are seeing is a galaxy of a trillion stars, and the Read More
Medicine s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology By Honor Harger15 March 2026 A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entrepreneur, Paul Conyngham, used AI tools including ChatGPT and AlphaFold to help design a personalised mRNA cancer treatment for his dog, Rosie after she was Read More
On Character and the Computational Mind By Honor Harger 11 March 2026 A very unusual paper published in Nature in January by AI safety researcher Jan Betley and colleagues has been circulating in the artificial intelligence field for a while and it really deserves a wider audience. Training large language models on narrow tasks can Read More
Forms of Life: Curating Encounters Beyond the Human By Honor Harger 2 February 2026 Across multiple fields, from ecology to philosophy, design and artificial intelligence, a fundamental shift is underway. Our assumptions about life are being challenged by discoveries that reveal worlds beyond human sensory limits and by technologies that blur the boundaries of sentience Read More
Looking for Light, Making Room for DarknessReflections on 2025 By Honor Harger31 December 2025 2025 isn’t a year I’ll remember fondly, if I’m honest. There were catastrophes, calamities and heartbreak both personally and around the world. But, as ever, perspective is the art of finding silver linings in the darkest of clouds. The year did, Read More