# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Art Of Citymaking - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 10:00 am – Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: A full day of conversations, immersive experiences, film, and exchange exploring how more human, connected, and imaginative cities are made.About this Event# The Art of Citymaking Festival · Singapore · 17 June 2026**The first international festival on how cities are actually made — closing with The New York Times Debate.**When the World Cities Summit closes, the conversation keeps going. On 17 June 2026, the Glass Dome in Singapore becomes the stage for a one-day gathering of the people shaping the world's cities — mayors, urban designers, investors, journalists, artists, policymakers and the practitioners who turn places into something more than postcodes.This is The Art of Citymaking. An inaugural festival. A new format. A new conversation. And a finale you won't see anywhere else: an Oxford-style debate, presented by **The New York Times**, on the motion that's quietly rewriting the global urban agenda — *"The way we measure city success is fundamentally wrong."*If you care about how cities feel, function and flourish — not just how they rank — this is the room.---## A festival, not a conferenceMost urban events look the same. Panels at podiums. Slides about smart cities. A coffee break, then more slides. We're doing something different.The Art of Citymaking is built like a piece of music. Four acts. One full day. Keynotes that say something, films that show something, a masterclass with one of the most important urban thinkers of the last forty years, a Pecha Kucha that won't let anyone hide behind a slide, mayoral postcards from the future, and after-hours conversations that carry into the night.There's a long-table lunch — the kind where the best ideas usually arrive between the first plate and the second helping. There's a mixer at golden hour. And there's a closing debate that puts the question of *what cities are for* directly into the room, with the world's most respected newsroom holding the microphone.You won't leave with a tote bag full of brochures. You'll leave with a way of seeing your city you didn't have when you arrived.---## Who this festival is forThis is a room of senior city leaders, investors, designers, developers, cultural producers, mayors, urban economists, regeneration specialists, real estate strategists, hospitality operators, foundation principals, sustainability heads, journalists, and the policy people who quietly hold cities together.It's for anyone working at the intersection of city, culture and change.If your work touches **urban planning**, **placemaking**, **architecture**, **real estate development**, **urban regeneration**, **smart cities**, **public space**, **cultural policy**, **community development**, **tourism strategy**, **hospitality**, **sustainability**, **future of work**, **liveability**, or **city branding** — there are conversations here you won't find together anywhere else this year.It's also for the curious. The civically minded. The people who've ever wondered why some neighbourhoods come alive at dusk and others empty out by six. We've kept a limited number of seats for them, too.---## Where it sits in #WCSWeekThe Art of Citymaking is an **official associated event of the World Cities Summit 2026**, which runs 14–16 June in Singapore. The Summit celebrates its milestone 10th edition this year. The festival opens the day after the Summit closes, in the same city — picking up the global conversation and turning it toward the creative, lived, human side of citymaking.Stay on for **#WCSWeek**. Make a week of it.Singapore is, by any honest measure, one of the most studied cities in the world. It is also one of the most generous — a living laboratory for what a city can be when intention meets discipline. There is no better stage for this conversation.---## The themesThe festival is organised around three lenses. They aren't sessions. They're the way we look at what we're seeing.**Adaptive Neighbourhoods — The Potential of Places.** How cities adapt to the people who live in them, across a lifetime. From housing typologies to ageing-in-place, from the 15-minute city to the 100-year city.**Urban Software — Next Cities.** How connection, participation and lived experience shape cities in practice. The invisible infrastructure that makes a place feel like one.**Placemaking & Legacy — Culture in Action.** How culture and identity shape places that endure and evolve. The work that outlasts the masterplan.These themes run through every session, every act, every conversation. They're how we'll find each other in the room.---## The programme — four acts, one day**Doors open at 09:00. Coffee, croissants, and the first notes of the day.**### Act I — The Standard *(10:00 — 12:35)*We open with a short film and the unveiling of six years of quiet work: the **Conscious Cities Index**, a new way to measure what cities are actually doing for the people inside them. A spotlight on **Copenhagen** — the Capital of Cool — and why the Danes keep designing for everyday life better than the rest of us.Then **Charles Landry** takes the stage. The author of *The Creative City* and *The Art of City-Making* — the books that gave a generation of urbanists their vocabulary — delivers a masterclass in three movements, joined by **Mich Goh** (Director of Public Policy APAC, Airbnb) and moderated by **Chris Law** of The Oval Partnership. Followed by **Habitat, Remade** — a fireside chat between **Digvijay Singh Kathiwada** (Kathiwada Foundation) and **Manvendra Singh Shekhawat** (founder, Dhun Life), with **Aimee Witteman** of the Urban Land Institute. Two practitioners who aren't theorising habitat. They're remaking it on the ground.### Lunch — Long Table *(12:35 — 13:30)*An hour to eat well, wander, and meet someone you wouldn't have otherwise.### Act II — Improvisation *(13:30 — 15:00)*A rapid-fire **Pecha Kucha** on the Experience Improvement District — twenty slides each, twenty seconds a slide — with three of the most interesting voices in conscious urbanism: **Elinor Seath**, **Manas Rath** and **Tulsi Grover**, framed by **Dr Samantha Hayes** of Bioneering Australia.Then **The Long View** — a moderated panel on the **100-Year City** with **Raj Ahuja** (WSDM Haus), **Orlando Woods** (SMU Urban Institute), **Melissa Kwee** (Beautiful People), moderated by **Tita Larasati** of the Indonesia Creative Cities Network. The 15-minute city measures distance. The 100-year city measures life.The act closes with **A Silent Revolution** — a conversation between **Erin Lee** (founder of The Big Sit) and **Shradha Biyani** (Harvard-trained planner, founder of Tashi Press). A deliberate breath before what comes next.### Act III — The Crescendo *(15:00 — 17:15)***Cities at Scale.** Two of the most consequential urban stories of our century — in the same room, in the same hour. **Sanjeev Sanyal**, Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, on a billion-strong India urbanising at unprecedented pace. **Yu-Ning Hwang**, Chief of Urban Innovation & Excellence at Singapore's Ministry of National Development, on the city-state that rewrote the playbook. Moderated by Festival Director **Anupam Yog**.Then the **Countless Cities Asia World Debut** — an hour built around the festival's **Creators in Residence** programme. Anchored by **Helen Marriage** of Artichoke (the legendary London-based company behind *Sultan's Elephant* and *Lumiere*), with **Carla Bartoli** and **Viola Bartoli** of Sicily's **Farm Cultural Park**, and **Saurabh Mangla** (ipse ipsa ipsum × Lumatera). Moderated by **Chevon Low** of Airbnb. The provocation: even a week's stay, done well, can change a city.Then **Legacy Cities: From Games to Generations** — a panel on **Brisbane 2032** as a citymaking question before a sporting one. **Jen Williams** (Committee for Brisbane), **Prantik Mazumdar** (TiE Singapore), **Peter Hyland** (Leadership for Cities), with futurist **Cheryl Chung**.Closed by **Postcards from the Future** — short, sharp postcards from the **mayors and deputy mayors of South East Queensland**, each carrying their city into the run-up to the 2032 Games. With a closing reflection from **Charles Landry**.### Act IV — After Hours *(17:15 — 20:00)***Dunbar's Mixer.** Drinks, toasts, and the soft launch of **The Citymaking Circle** — a standing community for the people who want to stay close to the work between editions.Then, at 18:00, the moment the whole day has been building toward.**THE NEW YORK TIMES DEBATE.** An Oxford-style live debate, moderated by **Lily Kuo** of The New York Times. The motion: *"The way we measure city success is fundamentally wrong."* GDP, growth and rankings on one side. Wellbeing, lived experience and the long human view on the other. You will not see this conversation staged like this anywhere else this year.We close with **The Citymakers' Social** at 19:00 — an open, unhurried hour. By the end of the day, everyone in the room is a citymaker.---## The voicesMore than **50 speakers from over 15 countries**. Urban leaders, mayors, designers, investors, journalists and cultural producers — many of whom rarely share a stage.**Charles Landry** · Festival President · Author, *The Creative City* and *The Art of City-Making***Sanjeev Sanyal** · Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India**Yu-Ning Hwang** · Chief, Urban Innovation & Excellence, Singapore Ministry of National Development**Helen Marriage** · Founder, Artichoke (UK)**Lily Kuo** · Journalist, The New York Times**Mich Goh** · Director of Public Policy, APAC, Airbnb**Mei Chou** · Group Director, Conservation & Urban Design, URA Singapore**Jen Williams** · CEO, Committee for Brisbane**Melissa Kwee** · Co-founder, Beautiful People**Carla Bartoli** · Farm Cultural Park / Countless Cities (Sicily)**Digvijay Singh Kathiwada** · Chairperson, Kathiwada Foundation**Manvendra Singh Shekhawat** · Founder, Dhun Life**Jakob Norman-Hansen** & **Ann-Britt Elvin Andersen** · Bloxhub, Copenhagen**Tita Larasati** · Indonesia Creative Cities Network**Prantik Mazumdar** · President, TiE Singapore**Peter Hyland** · Chair, Leadership for Cities & Industry Fellow, University of Queensland**Anupam Yog** · Festival Director & Founder, Leadership for Cities**Raj Ahuja** · Founder, WSDM Haus**Tulsi Grover** · Senior Partner, weareMIXD**Cheryl Chung** · Futurist**Mayors and Deputy Mayors of South East Queensland** — and many more.Lineup in formation. Full speakers and biographies available on the festival site.---## The partnersBuilt in collaboration with a founding network across urban design, real estate, culture, academia and media.**Official Citymaking Partner:** Airbnb**Featuring The New York Times Debate****Inspiration Partner:** districtBE × Dhun Jaipur**The Citymaking Circle** members and founding partners include Cairdrow Capital, ipse ipsa ipsum, Kathiwada, Lumatera, The Oval Partnership, re.vorG, Switch & Roy Studio, WSDM Haus and XDG Labs.**Friends of the Festival:** BLOXHUB · Better Place Foundation · Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore · Common Purpose · Farm Cultural Park · Foundry · Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) · Indonesia Creative Cities Network (ICCN) · SMU Urban Institute · ThinkCity · ULI · World Urban Parks · RamsGreat · REMIXD.Convened by **Leadership for Cities**. Experience design by **weareMIXD**. An **XDG Labs** initiative.---## What you get with your All Access Festival PassOne ticket. One day. Everything.— **The full programme** — every act, every keynote, every panel, every film, every immersive experience— **The Charles Landry masterclass** — including the launch of his latest book— **The New York Times Debate finale** — Oxford-style, live, unscripted— **Long-table lunch, refreshments and the closing cocktail reception**— **Access to the Dunbar's Mixer** and the soft launch of The Citymaking Circle— **A room of senior city leaders, investors, and practitioners** you'd otherwise spend a year trying to meet— **The Citymakers' Social** after the debate — open, unhurried, generous**Ticket: $188 SGD · All Access Festival Pass**Limited capacity. The Glass Dome holds what it holds. When it's full, it's full.---## Why this matters nowCities are the defining stage of the 21st century. More than half the world lives in one. By 2050, two-thirds will. Asia alone will add another billion urban residents in the coming decades.We're shaping environments that will outlive every one of us. And yet — and this is the heart of the festival — the dominant tools we use to measure whether a city is "working" still come from a 20th-century playbook. Growth. GDP. Square metres. Visitor numbers. Tower height. Tech adoption.Where in those metrics is the kid who walks home alone for the first time? The grandmother who can still meet a friend at a hawker centre? The artist who can afford to stay? The night that ends well? The street that feels safe? The square that fills up because people *want* to be there?**The Art of Citymaking** is the festival that takes this seriously. It's an invitation to think — with the people who actually run, build, fund, design, animate and live in cities — about what a better measure could look like. And what it would change.It is, also, the most enjoyable day on the calendar for anyone who loves cities.---## Practical details**Date:** Wednesday, 17 June 2026**Time:** 10:00 — 20:00 SGT · Doors 09:00**Venue:** Glass Dome — Landmark of Good, Singapore**Format:** Keynotes, panels, masterclass, film, immersive experiences, Pecha Kucha, Oxford-style debate, mixer**Language:** English**Pass:** All Access Festival Pass · $188 SGD**Capacity:** Limited**Dress:** Smart casual. Be ready to sit close.**Lunch:** Included (long-table format)**Reception:** Included (cocktails, mixer, social)**Programme details are subject to change. The organiser reserves the right to amend the programme.**The Art of Citymaking will return to Singapore in 2028.---## What you'll leave withA new mental map of how cities are made.A first-name basis with the people in the field doing the most interesting work.A copy of Charles Landry's latest book and the conversation that introduced it.The first cohort membership of **The Citymaking Circle** — the standing community around the festival, for people who want to stay close to the work between editions.And — if our last few private dinners are anything to go by — at least one collaboration, hire, partnership, investment, dinner invitation, or just unreasonably good idea that wasn't yours when you walked in.---## Frequently asked**Is this for me if I'm not in urban planning?**Yes. If you make, fund, design, programme, manage, write about, photograph, host, animate, regenerate, develop, sell, invest in, or live thoughtfully inside places — this is for you.**Do I need to attend the World Cities Summit first?**No. The Art of Citymaking is its own festival. It is an associated event of the WCS 2026, but every ticket stands on its own. Many guests are joining only for #WCSWeek's closing day.**Will sessions be recorded?**Select sessions, yes — but the room is where the value is. The debate, the mixers, the side conversations, the lunch — none of that travels through a screen.**Can I bring a colleague?**Yes. Capacity is limited, but tickets remain available. Group enquiries: circle@leadershipforcities.com.**Press?**Please contact our press office at Black Dot Singapore — details on leadershipforcities.com/press.---## Book your seatThis festival happens once. The inaugural edition won't be repeated. The Singapore stage, the WCS 2026 moment, this lineup, this debate, this room — it's a one-day window.**$188. One day. One room. One conversation that will change how you see your city.****Book your All Access Festival Pass now.**Singapore · 17 June 2026 · Glass Dome — Landmark of Good*The Art of Citymaking is an official associated event of the World Cities Summit 2026 · #WCSWeek*Convened by Leadership for Cities · Experience Design by weareMIXD · An XDG Labs initiative#TheArtOfCitymaking · #TAoC · #WCSWeek · #CreativeCityMaking · #LeadershipforCities · #TheCitymakingCircle https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/8fd06110-67f6-11f1-8df8-dd9fbbd297b2-rimg-w1200-h680-dcfffffe-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/singapore/the-art-of-citymaking/100001988560082738 - **Event Categories**: art, festivals, business, entertainment, nonprofit, literary-art, conferences, calendar - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: 18+ - door_time: 2026-06-17T01:00:00Z - Duration: 10 hours - Location: GlassDome - Landmark of Good - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 94, max: 188, currency: SGD ## Event venue details - **city**: Singapore - **state**: SG - **country**: Singapore - **location**: GlassDome - Landmark of Good - **lat**: 1.2834001 - **long**: 103.8482564 - **full address**: GlassDome - Landmark of Good, 28 China Street, Singapore, Singapore ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Art Of Citymaking - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/e14d430361e11a08e2048e3ed1a38d7641945fed072f753a158fb33c2fab6e4b-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8ce48-gmir.jpg?v=1777677438 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Art Of Citymaking being held? - **A:** The Art Of Citymaking takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 10:00 am to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at GlassDome - Landmark of Good, 28 China Street, Singapore, Singapore. - **Q**: Is there an age restriction for The Art Of Citymaking? - **A:** The Art Of Citymaking is strictly for guests aged 18 and above. Valid government-issued photo ID is required for entry. Guests under 18 will not be admitted. The event will be presented in English. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Art Of Citymaking? - **A:** The Art Of Citymaking is organized by Leadership For Cities. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** The Art Of Citymaking is ideal for festival lovers, culture enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a vibrant, immersive community experience. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Singapore, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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