A day of conversations on how cities are made, through lived experience, creativity, and the forces shaping their future.

09:00 · Arrival

Doors, coffee & breakfast

Doors opened at nine, coffee, breakfast, and the slow business of finding your people before the day began.

10:00, 10:25 · Film, findings & response

A New Way to Measure the City

Six years of quiet work, opened to the room and pressure-tested by people who measure cities for a living.

10:25, 11:30 · Masterclass, keynote, book launch & dialogue

The Art of Citymaking: A Masterclass with Charles Landry

• Charles Landry, Author, The Creative City

A masterclass with Charles Landry, woven in three movements.

11:30, 12:30 · Presentations & moderated conversation

Habitat, Remade: Regenerative Urbanism × Radical Ruralism

Two practitioners who aren't theorising habitat, they're remaking it on the ground. Neither urban nor rural, their work sits in a third space and quietly rearranges what we expect places to be.

12:30, 14:00 · Hosted long-table lunch

The 100-Year City: Longevity Table Lunch

Act II began at the table. Guests were seated across hosted long tables and introduced by what they were working on, not their titles. A question card sat at every seat. Midway through, one Singapore builder offered five minutes: one true thing they had observed. The medium was the message: longevity is built through food, conversation and shared responsibility.

14:00, 14:25 · Pecha Kucha

Conscious Urbanism: From Place to Experience

Twenty slides each, twenty seconds a slide, a rapid-fire run at the Experience Improvement District: where it is applied, what it measures, and what it would take to make wellbeing the standard metric of urban success.

14:25, 14:45 · In conversation

A Silent Revolution

Two practices, one quiet insistence: cities change when we slow down enough to sit, listen and write it down. A deliberate breath before the Crescendo.

14:45, 15:00 · Refreshments

Break

A fifteen-minute pause, coffee, conversation and a moment to reset.

15:00, 15:35 · Fireside chat

Cities at Scale

Two of the most consequential urban stories of the century, a billion-strong India urbanising at unprecedented pace, and a city-state that rewrote the playbook, in the same room, in the same hour.

15:35, 16:10 · Presentation & moderated conversation

Can Art Reinvent a City?

Twenty years ago Charles Landry gave the world a phrase, the Creative City. In a half-forgotten Sicilian town, a notary and a lawyer took it literally. What followed became one of the most quietly radical experiments in urban regeneration anywhere. The next generation brought the story to Asia for the first time.

16:10, 16:35 · Keynote

What Is a City For?

• Helen Marriage, Anchor, 2026

The residency's quiet question, what is the role of the creator in the life of a city?, answered by the anchor of the 2026 cohort. A keynote on wonder as infrastructure, and on what cities are actually for.

16:35, 16:55 · Moderated conversation

Postcards from the Future

The Games are not the legacy, the city after the Games is. A conversation on 2032 as a citymaking question before a sporting one.

16:55, 17:15 · Fireside chat

The City of Good

On what it takes to build a city of good: the quiet civic architecture of giving, volunteering and belonging that turns a high-performing city into a kinder one.

17:15, 18:00 · Postcards, drinks & three toasts

Dunbar's Mixer

The afternoon spilled off-stage. Short postcards on what each city was carrying into the decade ahead, framed by Charles Landry on what the rest of the Asia-Pacific might learn. Drinks, toasts and unhurried conversation followed.

18:00, 19:00 · Oxford-style debate · finale

The Debate

• Motion: "The way we measure city success is fundamentally wrong."
• Moderator: Lily Kuo

A live Oxford-style debate. Six debaters took on the motion before a four-person jury, the day's finale.

19:00, 20:00 · Open hour

The Citymakers' Social

The day spilled out of the room for an open, unhurried hour. By the end of it, everyone present was a citymaker.