Neural Palate Kueh is a reinterpretation of traditional Singaporean kuehs (bite-sized snack or dessert foods) as local architecture in the form of 3D-printed kuehs. Traditional kuehs are edible cultural artefacts and material records of ritual, memory and geometry, not unlike buildings. Hence, the project is a playful fusion of nostalgic food heritage and familiar built environment, mediated by artificial intelligence, to discover a new architectural language – part food, part built form, but completely Singaporean.

Beyond formal resemblance, a series of accompanying AI-generated videos reinterpreting footages of local dining experiences are also on display at the exhibition, to further reveal another layer of shared latent affordances between social food dining and participatory city planning. Each dining video footage is placed in-sync next to its AI-generated dining-inspired architectural planning such as, Kaya Toast breakfast with the ArtScience Museum and Laksa with the Jewel Changi Airport.