Following the success of 2023's 'Welcome to Postnormal Times' Exhibition, Malaysia's Prime Minister YAB Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim requested that the exhibition be expanded to include the application of PNT to his Malaysia MADANI framework. One year later, the Postnormal Times MADANI Exhibition opened at Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur. The largest and most elaborate PNT exhibition yet was a collaboration between Prime Minister Anwar, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, East and Southeast Asia (IIIT), Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur, and the CPPFS. The Exhibition was opened by Prime Minister Anwar on 26 May 2024 and was originally planned to run through 10 November 2024, but upon popular request, the exhibition ran until 1 November 2025. The exhibition was visited by thousands of spectators that year.
The audience set off on an experiential and pedagogical journey exploring the ways our contemporary world is changing and what might lie ahead for us all. The aim of the exhibition is to spread awareness of the postnormal times we find ourselves in and demonstrate how Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim combined his political experience and desire for reform with the insights of futures studies and postnormal times theory to develop the MADANI approach – a principled and ethical framework that will help us navigate the tempestuous waters ahead towards brighter futures for all of Malaysia.
"To tackle the struggles of our times will take new ways of thinking. Where better to start than a place where we already have different ways of reasoning, seeing, and living."
YAB Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia
This exhibition was organised into three parts, the first asking the question of the age: What just happened?, exploring a curation of current events that point to the normal - what which we have taken for granted - evaporating alongside the occurrence of several strange events.
The first part explores such themes as Post-Truth, the Covid Halt, Climate Catastrophe, AI Revolution, Degrading Governance, and Genetic Blend.
Will you be a climate refugee?
The second part of the exhibition focussed on the details of postnormal times theory including the 4S's, 3C's, the Menagerie of Postnormal Potentialities as well as Ignorance and Uncertainty.
And the updated Timelines made an appearance!
The third part applied the first two parts to the case of Malaysia and demonstrated how Futures and PNT Theory were used to develop the Malaysia MADANI policymaking framework.
To give new insight into the future of Malaysia, this exhibition features the works of six local Malaysian artists who have taken on and interpreted one of the six ethical drivers MADANI Malaysia: Sustainability, Care and Compassion, Respect, Innovation, Prosperity, and Trust (forming the English acronym SCRIPT).
Take a Digital Tour of the PNT MADANI Exhibition Here!