The Art of Citymaking Festival
The Festival
The Art of Citymaking is a one-day international festival exploring how cities evolve as places to live, connect, and participate — staged in Singapore on 17 June 2026.
TAoC brings together urban leaders, creatives, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how cities evolve as places to live, connect, and participate.
Across keynotes, panels, film, and immersive experiences, the festival treats creativity and innovation as essential forces in citymaking — revealing how neighbourhoods adapt, how participation deepens, and how the experience of place is shaped.
- Date
- 17 June 2026 · 10:00 — 20:00 SGT · Doors 09:00
- Venue
- Glass Dome — Landmark of Good, Singapore
- Format
- One day. Keynotes, panels, film, immersive experiences, and a New York Times Oxford-style debate finale.
- Audience
- Senior city leaders, investors, developers, designers, cultural practitioners, and citymakers from Singapore and around the world.
Why Now
Cities are under pressure — housing, mobility, climate, and social cohesion — and increasingly shaped by new actors alongside public systems.
The gap between how cities are structured and how they are experienced is widening. TAoC is a space to close it — through ideas, exchange, and craft.
Singapore is the world's living lab for liveability — and the natural stage for a global conversation on what comes next.
Programme
- Masterclass
- The Art of Citymaking with Charles Landry — the opening frame for the day.
- Keynotes
- Global voices on creativity, innovation, and the future of urban life.
- Panels
- Practitioners in conversation — across policy, development, design, and culture.
- Film & Immersive
- Stories of place, told in the rooms and rhythms of the Glass Dome.
- NYT Debate
- An Oxford-style debate finale with The New York Times: 'The way we measure city success is fundamentally wrong.'
Team
Making a city is like jazz, not a symphony — it is improvised, layered, and alive to the moment.
- Charles Landry— Festival President
- Anupam Yog— Festival Director
Venue
One day. One room. A panoramic glass-walled venue in the heart of Singapore — built for ideas that move between stages, screens, and conversations.
The Glass Dome holds the whole festival under one canopy — keynotes, panels, film, immersive moments, and the closing debate — so the conversation stays connected from morning coffee to cocktail hour.
One day. One room. Cities as places to live, connect, and participate.