
Museum of the Future Dubai, UAE 2017
Commissioned by Prime Minister’s Office, UAE
Presented at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Museum of the Future unfolds as a spatial narrative exploring how climate change might reshape cities, infrastructures, and ecosystems. The exhibition uses architecture as a tool for imagining adaptation at both planetary and human scales.
Developed in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team led by Tellart, the project brings together spatial design, speculative models, and interactive media to visualize how future environments might respond to shifting environmental conditions. Architecture operates not as backdrop, but as an active framework that organizes experience, narrative, and interaction across the exhibition.
The exhibition is structured as a series of distinct yet interconnected zones, each addressing a critical aspect of climate resilience. Environments explore future food cultivation and distribution systems, advanced water desalination strategies, and modular “city kits” designed to support self-building urban infrastructure. Together, these spaces form a cohesive narrative that moves from planetary-scale challenges to localized, actionable solutions.
Each zone is defined by a unique spatial language that reinforces its content through form, material, and scale. Architecture shapes how speculative ideas are encountered physically, allowing visitors to move through scenarios that are often abstract or remote. Sound, visual media, and interactive systems are integrated throughout, reinforcing the sense of inhabiting a living system rather than observing static displays.
Collaborators including Marshmallow Laser Feast, Spacehabs, Idee und Klang, and LUST worked alongside the core team to merge data, imagery, and storytelling seamlessly with the architectural framework. Rather than presenting climate change as a distant problem, Museum of the Future positions it as a condition that can be reimagined through design, collaboration, and innovation—using space to translate complex systems into tangible experience and invite reflection on what comes next.





