"2025 marks the 60th anniversary of Singapore's independence, commemorating its separation from Malaysia on August 9, 1965. The occasion is celebrated in the country's national pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale with a multisensory installation that honors Singapore's diversity and reimagines city-making through food, culture, and collective design. Titled RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA, the installation invites visitors to take a seat at the Table of Superdiversity: an enticing reimagining of city-making and nation-building through the universal act of dining."
"According to the curatorial team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the purpose of the installation is to showcase how the convergence of multicultural differences, collective histories, design, and new technology creates opportunities for more inclusive and adaptive urban futures. Commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA) and the DesignSingapore Council (Dsg), the Singapore Pavilion is organized by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)."
"The Pavilion uses the act of dining as a curatorial lens to explore how architecture, policy, and participatory design intersect in the everyday lives of Singaporeans. Through a "menu" of architectural and urban planning projects, RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA offers visitors a "taste" of Singapore by representing key ingredients of its environment."
Singapore marks its 60th independence with RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA, a multisensory national pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. The installation reframes city-making and nation-building through the act of dining, linking food, culture, and collective design as instruments of urban imagination. The project foregrounds how multicultural differences, shared histories, design practice, and emerging technologies can generate more inclusive and adaptive urban futures. Commissioned by the URA and DesignSingapore Council and organized by SUTD, a multidisciplinary curatorial team presents RASA as a sensory reinterpretation of tabula rasa: RASA (taste in Malay), TABULA (table in Latin), and SINGAPURA (Lion City in Sanskrit). The pavilion presents a curated "menu" of architectural and planning projects that represent key environmental and social ingredients shaping Singapore's identity and collective life.
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