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BONES
This Week From The Editor

Bones help keep us together, holding space for our identities and reminding us of our ephemerality. But what happens when they become an everyday spectacle, viscerally exposing the heightened vulnerability of a part of the world?

Bones and All

A frail boy clutched in the arms of his mother, his crumbling skeleton cutting through his pallid skin. Hordes of people going multiple days without food, running amok for a small bag of flour. Tiny bodies, contending with the monstrosity of Israel's siege in Gaza, remain barely tethered to life through skin and bone. In this week's dispatch, bones become a provocative clue: The 2025 Folkestone Triennial unfolds as an archaeological excavation in response to our current geopolitical disorientation.

Elsewhere, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler's 'Calculating Empires' at the Venice Biennale 2025 strips history to its bare bones as it charts colonial infrastructures from the 1500s to our precarious present. The speculative cityscapes in CJ Lim and Luke Angers' 'Dreams + Disillusions' are an x-ray of the city, exposing the bones of ideology, memory and myth. An interview with Owen Hughes Pearce of Pearce+ discusses a localised, elemental approach to architecture in which building is an act of commitment. And care.

While the ground underneath us buries traces of our histories, ghosts and futures, how do we redo the world above?

Zohra Khan

See You Later on storytelling through stage, sound and scenography
See You Later on storytelling through stage, sound and scenography
See See

From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at the Venice Biennale 2025

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Think

Speculative cities of dissonance in CJ Lim and Luke Angers' Dreams + Disillusions

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Think
Inspire Inspire

PEARCE+ on optimising scarcity and building as an act of commitment

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Reflect

Singapore Design Week 2025

Date

11 – 21 Sept, 2025

LOCATION

Singapore

Singapore Design Week 2025

In a city-wide celebration of Singapore's design spirit and creativity, this edition of SDW, organised by the DesignSingapore Council, will commemorate 60 years of the nation's independence. Under the theme 'Nation by Design', SDW's annual highlights return through the festival's three defining pillars: Design Futures, Design Marketplace and Design Impact. Curated in collaboration with leading local and international names, these key events will provoke new thinking, spotlight emerging talent and inspire bold ideas for Singapore's next chapter.

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NEWS

Galleria Continua marks two decades in China with Time Knows the Answer to Art

Galleria Continua marks two decades in China with Time Knows the Answer to Art

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Emma Witter conjures modern alchemy with The Moon's Daughter is a Pearl at FUMI

Emma Witter conjures modern alchemy with The Moon's Daughter is a Pearl at FUMI

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The lay of the land

Deep-time ecologies at the Folkestone Triennial 2025

09 MIN READ

Sofia Hallström

The lay of the land

Amidst geopolitical disorientation and ecological crises, the Folkestone Triennial this year speaks of ritual, resistance and repair.

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