Invitation · GlassDome, Singapore · 17 June 2026
An invitation to join
the conversation.
The Art of Citymaking Festival is a one-day inquiry with a room of city-makers, investors and practitioners, convened in Singapore during World Cities Summit week. The Index is our frame for the conversation; the Festival is where its question goes live, in the company of people who can move it forward.
"The way we measure city success is fundamentally wrong."— Festival finale · NYT Agree to Disagree debate
The day is organised around three themes.
Theme 01
Adaptive
Neighbourhoods
How cities adapt to the people who live in them — across a lifetime.
Theme 02
Urban
Software
How connection, participation, and lived experience shape cities in practice.
Theme 03
Placemaking
& Legacy
How culture and identity shape places that endure and evolve.
The city is the greatest collective work of art we make. Its true measure is how well it lets people live, connect, and become.— Charles Landry · author, The Art of City-Making