As Singapore envisions its future and the ways in which we continue living together, a shift in bioethics may emerge as a possibility.
Rewilding the Sky reimagines Singapore as a vertical urban landscape where every building hosts a nature reserve. Today, the city is already a model of biodiversity, integrating nature into its urban environment. This project expands on that reality, proposing a speculative future where the Eastern region transforms into a rainforest-city, seamlessly merging greenery with urban life. The city would reflect the ability to call rain, much like the Western region, where Bukit Timah Nature Reserve—home to Singapore’s primary rainforest—stands. The artwork is infused with three distinct scents representing the Earth’s protective layers: Water, Ozone, and the Magnetosphere.
As visitors move around the installation, its two halves align, forming higher ground that creates a rain shadow effect. Together, they release biogenic volatile organic compounds into the clouds, triggering rainfall. This rain replenishes the dyke-reservoirs along Singapore’s southeastern shore. Slated for completion by 2050, these reservoirs will play a crucial role in safeguarding the city from rising sea levels.
The artwork explores the duality of the constructed and the natural, recognizing the deep interconnections between ecosystems and the sky. It envisions new ways of coexisting among humans, digital entities, and other living beings.
salad dressing is a Singapore-based landscape design firm founded in 2002. Comprising landscape architects, garden designers, and ecology-focused professionals, the company has an international portfolio spanning parks, residential developments, gardens, resorts, and art installations. Inspired by pressing climate issues, ecological decline, and the evolving relationship between technology and nature, salad dressing positions itself as a mediator in interspecies relationships, expressing the ongoing flux of humanity through its work.
