A standing body of people who make cities worth living in.
Friends read and take part. Fellows carry the work — and keep the Commons open to everyone else. Everyone is a citymaker; the difference is intention.
The open door. For anyone curious about how cities are made, and willing to put a little behind it.
- · The open Commons — essays, field notes, photography
- · Field Notes correspondence
- · Invitations to open salons and public sessions
For practitioners who want to be in the room and on the record. Fellows are admitted by application. Everyone who held a paid ticket on 17 June is a founding Fellow already.
- · Everything a Friend receives
- · The full Commons, including films and session recordings
- · Fellows-only convenings and closed-door salons
- · Named in the Fellowship directory, with post-nominal use
- · Priority access and member rates for the next festival
You see your city differently, and you want to say so.
You follow the work, read the Commons, turn up to open sessions.
You apply to be a Fellow, and take a hand in what gets made.
You carry a city, an institution or a portfolio — and join the Circle.
Come in as a Friend.
The smallest useful commitment: it keeps the Commons open, and it keeps you in the correspondence. Your place is active the moment payment clears.
This is our inaugural year, and we are building the Fellowship in the open. Read the note.
Apply to become a Fellow.
Fellows are admitted by application, not by checkout. Tell us where you work and what you are trying to change; if it is a fit, we will write back with a payment link.
You were there. Your place is already held.
Everyone at the Glass Dome is part of the founding cohort, and nothing changes for you: paid tickets become founding Fellows, complimentary tickets become Friends, both at no cost and without an application. Enter the email you registered with and we’ll send your claim link.
The Commons stays open
Fellowship subscriptions pay for editing, filming and photography, so most of the library can stay free to read.
Convenings that aren't for sale
Closed-door salons run on member support rather than sponsorship, which is what keeps the conversation honest.
A body, not an audience
Fellows are named, reachable and drawn on — for the Conscious Cities Index (an XDG Labs initiative), for programme design, for peer review.
The Fellowship is for individuals. The Circle is for those who carry a city, an institution, or a portfolio.
Friend · SGD 18.80 a year — Fellow · by application
An individual membership. Friends follow the work and keep the Commons in view. Fellows are admitted by application — SGD 188 a year, or SGD 350 for two — and go deeper: films, session recordings and the fuller record as it lands.
You are hereOne hundred and fifty seats · dues on request
A year of convenings, salons and closed-door work across ASEAN and the Asia Pacific. The Circle is not a larger membership — it is the one that carries the others, supplying the rooms, the bursaries and the mentoring the Fellowship draws on. Five layers, joined by invitation and conversation.
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Correspondence from the people building better cities.
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