About
A house for long-form work on cities.
The Art of Citymaking holds work that needs years rather than an afternoon on a stage.
An argument, a residency that tests it on real ground for a decade, and an inquiry that grew out of the ground itself.
What sits here
An argument, a residency that tests it, and an inquiry that grew out of the ground.
Three pieces of one body of work. The argument came first, the residency puts it on real ground for a decade, and the inquiry is what the ground started asking back.
01
The book
The argument: cities are made by imagination and craft as much as by plans and capital. Where the name comes from, and why the case merits a decade of real ground.
The book →02
Creators in Residence
The test. A cohort of Creators holds one working brief, in tension to intention, across a ten-year circuit. Singapore in even years, travelling ground in odd ones.
The residency →03
Project Mandala
The inquiry that grew from Dhun: what a university looks like when it is built from a place. Its first season, Ground Truth, lands at Jaipur in 2027 with a commissioned public artwork.
The companion inquiry →
New to the term? What is citymaking? sets out how citymaking and placemaking differ, and why we call it an art.
How it is convened
The Citymaking Circle
The Citymaking Circle is the membership body that convenes and sustains the work: it brings the cohort together, underwrites the chapters, and keeps the practice going between them.
How it is made
weareMIXD
weareMIXD curates and produces the residency. Each chapter is authored end to end, from the brief to the artefact, so a week on the ground holds together as one piece of work rather than a programme of parts.
In practice that means setting the question, assembling the cohort, securing the ground and its hosts, running the making, and carrying what a chapter finds into the next one.