Superlative Futures is an Art + Design Research studio. We think with design in transdisciplinary ways to probe how cities and communities can better relate to neglected margins and the broken environment. We design to reassemble lost places and cultures, so that we might look more carefully into more-than futures. We make art to educate and advocate new ways of seeing, thinking, and caring for peoples and places, landscapes and environments. We see our design output as a practice of care.

Email
hello@superlativefutures.com

WONG Zi Hao (Dr.)
Director, and co-founder
PhD by Design (National University of Singapore) /
M.Arch (NUS) / Ba.Arch.Hons (NUS)

An artist, designer, researcher, and educator. Zi Hao directs Superlative Futures, an extension of architecture + design practice Studio Super Safari, which he co-founded in 2014. His practice-led research probes neglect in the interstitial (but also creatively fertile) margins of landscape and architecture, art and design, asking how critical care might look like for these places when neglect is speculatively undone. In 2023, he received his PhD in Architecture at the National University of Singapore—the first doctoral design-led research to be attempted and completed at NUS’s Department of Architecture.

Zihao is also a part-time faculty at NUS’ Department of Architecture, and teaches contemporary (design) theories. He also runs his graduate elective module “Drawing as Research”, introducing design/practice-led methods of research complementing the M.Arch Design Research and Thesis program. He also teaches research practices and writing methods across interdisciplinary design fields, at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)/University of Arts Singapore (UAS)’s Bachelors’ of Arts in Design Practice program.

LIU Diancong
Co-founder
M.Arch (National University of Singapore) /
Ba.Arch.Hons (Southern China University of Technology)

DesignXResearcher and collaborator at Superlative Futures. Diancong is a keen observer and mind-leaper, always on the lookout for new (transdisciplinary) ways to make design. Completed in 2024, his design-led thesis explores sedimentation as an architectural process, tapping into modes of creative artmaking to express alternative watery conceptions of “ground”, in the process rehabilitating the place of water to cities. He has been invited to talk about his work at Southern China University of Technology, in Guangzhou. Diancong is currently working on the co-curation of a public-facing exhibition on tidal cultures and places in Guangzhou.