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The Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale Reimagines the City-State as a Dining Table
RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA: Celebrating Singapore's Superdiversity - A Variational City. Singapore Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025. Image © Luca Capuano, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
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.
