Conversations that move cities forward.
Our festivals and salons convene policymakers, developers, and practitioners—creating space for exchange and new directions in citymaking.
A festival is a moment. A Circle is a year.
A first gathering of the founding cohort — ahead of the inaugural festival on 17 June.
A special preview for The Citymaking Circle — the year-round community of one hundred and fifty people who shape cities by design, not by accident. An evening over drinks and canapés to meet the founding cohort and unveil the programme, partners and speakers for 17 June.
Members who join in 2026 carry Founding status — Citizen, Founder, Patron or Benefactor — for the life of the Circle. After the inaugural year, the title doesn’t come back.
Creators in Residence
A cohort. One week. A city in conversation.
A week-long residency anchored by Helen Marriage, joined by Charles Landry, Elinor Seath and Clare Inkster — with Carla & Viola Bartoli of Farm Cultural Park joining as Young Creators. The cohort comes together publicly at the inaugural festival on 17 June — the one moment to hear them in conversation, on stage, in Singapore.
India’s Next Cities — Policy, Capital, and Delivery
A focused exchange inside the World Cities Summit — Indian and global perspectives on how cities are shaped in practice.
The session extends the Learning Labs programme into the World Cities Summit — creating a structured moment of dialogue across public, private, and institutional stakeholders.
Curated by Leadership for Cities in partnership with the High-Level Committee on Urban Planning, Government of Gujarat, the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), and ULI India, and developed in collaboration with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), Singapore. The session brings together senior policymakers, practitioners, and investors to examine how urban development is shaped across policy, capital, and delivery.
A small-format session creating space for direct, cross-context exchange — followed by a luncheon reception for continued conversation.
The Art of Citymaking
Inaugural Festival
Cities are shaped every day—through people, culture, and the rhythms of lived experience.
The Art of Citymaking Festival brings together urban leaders, creatives, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how cities evolve as places to live, connect, and participate.
India & The Policy Pivot
Growth, cities and strategic change — an evening on India’s next decade, the Singapore connection and the urban opportunity.
A special evening conversation with Sanjeev Sanyal — economist, author, and Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India — hosted by Anupam Yog, Managing Partner of XDG Labs.
Co-hosted by Leadership for Cities and the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), the evening will explore India’s reform trajectory, its place in a changing global order, and how infrastructure, mobility, housing, digital systems and the everyday quality of urban life will shape the next decade of growth.
Drawing on themes from The Policy Pivot, a new book on India’s changing policy landscape. Ajay Khanna, Founder of PAFI and Co-editor of the book, joins as a panelist alongside other invited speakers. The formal conversation is followed by a networking reception with leaders from business, government, public policy, investment, academia, technology and urban development.
