Futures Salon #2: The Futures of Heritage

Second in the Futures Salon series, this evening takes heritage as an open question rather than a fixed archive. Who gets to decide which objects and stories survive, and how do you pass the past to generations that know the world differently? The session works from the premise that body-based tools and multi-sensory formats widen what can be preserved and what can be experienced — a useful starting point for anyone who has walked through a museum and felt the glass between them and the thing.

The programme opens with a curator-led tour of the exhibition Islands in the Net, then moves into a group discussion on heritage futures, and closes with informal mingling. It runs 7pm to 9.30pm on Thursday 5 November 2026, doors open before the programme starts, and a place costs S$20. Suited to people who think about collections, memory, design or public history — and to anyone who wants a say in what gets kept.