Exhibition :

Assembling the Social

DATE

5/2/2026 —
5/3/2026

COLLABORATION

EXHIBITORS
John K.C. Liu &
Mu Szu Mien;
Tan Beng Kiang;
Emmanuel Pratt;
Pangrok Sulap;
Ou Ning;
Barofspace;
Charis Poon &
Chan Kam Fai;
Edit Collective;
Community Architects Network (Witee Wisuthumporn & Mahmuda Alam);
Community Maintenance Club;
Parsons And Charlesworth;
Peggy Deamer

EXHIBITION TEAM
Thomas Tsang, Thomas Kong, Co-Curators;
Alison Liew, Faith Yeo, Humairah Sumaiya, Jamie Foo, Jamie Loh, Lee Chu Xin, Lee Yeling, Lee Zhuo Yao, Liu Zepu, Sabrina Law, Student Associates

Assembling the Social exhibition brings together a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen socially-engaged projects. Ranging from art, design, architecture, education and urban planning, the projects situate the social across multiple scales and sites. They present a mosaic of outputs that reflect how different fields and disciplines respond to the urgent eco-techno-social concerns of our time.

To assemble is not to fix, but to bring into relation by holding things together to discover common aspirations, serendipitous overlaps, and emergent solidarities.

On this premise, the exhibition is an invitation to view the projects around four intertwined and interdependent acts:

Caring, which recognises its affective and ethical labour;
Nurturing, which attends to growth and maintenance;
Repairing, which reclaims mending as a creative and civic act; and
Imagining, which speculates more-than-human relations, new collective rituals and social imaginaries.

The projects make a compelling case that the social is a constructed field of intermingling relationships that is continuously shaped, assembled, and reimagined over time as an unfolding meshwork of bodies, tools, rules, data, stories, emotions, and environments.

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Exhibition :

To assemble is not to fix, but to bring into relation by holding things together to discover common aspirations, serendipitous overlaps, and emergent solidarities.

On this premise, the exhibition is an invitation to view the projects around four intertwined and interdependent acts:

Caring, which recognises its affective and ethical labour;

Nurturing, which attends to growth and maintenance;

Repairing, which reclaims mending as a creative and civic act; and

Imagining, which speculates more-than-human relations, new collective rituals and social imaginaries.

The projects make a compelling case that the social is a constructed field of intermingling relationships that is continuously shaped, assembled, and reimagined over time as an unfolding meshwork of bodies, tools, rules, data, stories, emotions, and environments.

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