Outside the Box
G
lobal experiential
designers MET
Studio’s ‘From Singapore
to Singaporean: The
Bicentennial Experience’,
combines story-telling and
multisensory flourishes to
explore the possibilities of
the exhibition medium. They
demonstrate that big budgets
also mean big impact.
Running until January
2020, the exhibition, created
by MET Studio as lead design
agency in close partnership
with the Singapore
Bicentennial Office, takes
visitors on a 45-minute, multi-
sensual journey charting
Singapore’s evolution through
the ages.
MET Studio are designers
and storytellers with work
that includes Hong Kong’s
Iconic wetland park,
immersive and interactive
brand experiences for
the likes of Samsung and
Manchester United and
world-leading museum
galleries for clients such as
the Chicago Field Museum,
Hong Kong Science
museum, Amsterdam’s Het
Scheepvaartmuseum and the
RAF Museum London.
MET Studio are also
currently working on Expo
2020’s ambitious Mobility
Pavilion with Foster+Partners
Experiential
echelons
MET Studio’s projects for Singapore, and
Dubai’s Expo 2020, showcase the rewards of
putting content at a premium
and Weta Workshop,
creating a multi-sensory and
immersive ‘redefining’ of
human mobility.
The visitor experience is at
the core of MET’s work. From
Singapore to Singaporean is
set within an original colonial
building in central Singapore,
with MET Studio employing
a combination of digital
and physical techniques
to build an immersive
experience charting the
area’s occupation through to
modern day Singapore.
The exhibition is curated
in a series of zones framed
as ‘acts’, with MET’s digital
and physical concepts playing
strongly to the strengths
of overall creative director
Beatrice Chia and her
background in theatrical and
event design.
The Singapore exhibition
is split into five acts – MET
Studio wanted to tell the
story in a non-conventional,
immersive way - using new
and old theatrical techniques
such as digital and live rain,
layering, 3D sound and film
‘From Singapore
to Singaporean: The
Bicentennial Experience’
is a free exhibition and has
just been extended to run
until January 2020, at Fort
Canning Centre, Singapore.
Words: Tom Hall
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