The Creators.

Anchor · 2026

Helen Marriage

Producer, public realm · United Kingdom

Three decades of ambitious public art: a sultan's elephant moving through London, Lumiere lighting Durham, Processions marking a century of suffrage. Her practice insists that a city's public realm is not a backdrop but a stage, and that ordinary people, gathered, are its protagonists.

Creator · 2026

Manvendra Singh Shekhawat

Habitat, hospitality, ecology · Rajasthan, India

Founder of Dhun, a 500-acre living laboratory where barren land now holds 300,000 trees, restored water systems and the early shape of a human-scale neighbourhood for some 8,500 people. His wider practice treats heritage, hospitality and ecology as one continuous craft.

Creator · 2026

Digvijay Singh Kathiwada

Long-horizon stewardship · Madhya Pradesh, India

Custodian of 149 villages across 700 sq km in the Vindhya hills, working in quiet, long-horizon ways across rural planning, education, healthcare, sport and cultural heritage, building self-reliant communities from the inside out.

Creator · 2026

Carla & Viola Bartoli

Cultural regeneration · Sicily, Italy

A second generation of cultural regenerators carrying forward the reanimation of abandoned Sicilian towns through art, architecture and community, treating culture as civic infrastructure rather than decoration.

Creator · 2026

Elinor Seath

Experience Improvement District · United Kingdom

An architect of the XID framework, which reimagines neighbourhoods as net producers of human wellbeing, drawing design, neuroscience and lived experience together to ask what cities feel like, not only what they look like.

Creator · 2026

Clare Inkster

Curiosity, insight, enquiry · United Kingdom

A human curiosity and insight consultant who spent a career asking brands better questions before turning to bigger ones. With an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching, she treats curiosity as a transformative force and runs live experiments with teams learning to think at the edge of what they know.

Curator · 2026

Anupam Yog

Creative strategy, urban innovation · Singapore

A creative strategist working where experience design meets urban innovation, with research on placemaking for healthy habitats and the link between community wellbeing and urban design. Oxford MSc in Sustainable Urban Development, Chicago MBA, trained Hindustani classical vocalist, and the founder of a slow growing social meditation movement begun in Singapore in 2020. Curated and produced the inaugural week and its framing, in tension to intention.

Resident · 2026

Charles Landry

The Creative City · United Kingdom

Originator of the Creative City idea. For four decades his thinking has shaped how cities reimagine themselves through culture, imagination and the everyday creative act. The Art of Citymaking takes its name and its framing from his book.

Resident · 2026

Dr. Samantha Hayes

Bioneering · Australia

Works at the meeting point of biology and design, treating living systems as collaborators in how places are made. Her bioneering practice asks what a city grows rather than only what it builds.

Host · 2026

Saurabh Mangla

Craft, material, making · Singapore

Anchor host of the 2026 week. Founded a contemporary karkhana as a working answer to an industry that erased its makers: artisans, designers and clients on one floor, with around 1,000 families woven into its ecosystem. He set the residency's register: think global, act local; one foot in the past, one in the future.

Host · 2026

Tulsi Grover

Hospitality and lifestyle design · Singapore

Twenty years of hotels, lounges, F&B destinations and mixed use districts across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Founder of a purpose led design consultancy, he treats design as an operating system that shapes behaviour rather than surface, and held the shape of the week on the ground.

Host · 2026

Erin Lee

Mindfulness, attention, wellbeing · Singapore

A mindfulness teacher and author who came to practice through burnout and a ten-day silent retreat. She teaches attention as a set of skills, self-regulation, emotional resilience and cognitive flexibility, and brought that register of stillness into the pace of the week.