City Rising is about taking our cities back from false ideas of progress. When we imagine our ideal cities, we don’t ask for flyovers or tunnels. We picture clean air, better transport, shade and safe spaces that belong to everyone. City Rising turns the shared imaginations into collective power through imagination, storytelling and action. By amplifying community-led change, it builds a shared mandate, letting our decision-makers know how we imagine our cities, and therefore building climate friendly cities designed for people not profit.
Imagination To Reality
The Imaginarium is a shared space hosted by citizens, where people come together to imagine the city they actually want to live in. By opening their homes or neighbourhood spaces, hosts help turn everyday frustration into collective vision and shared ownership of the city’s future.
Placemaking is about turning the shared ideas that evolved out of the imaginariums into lived, visible change in streets, neighbourhoods, and public spaces. It translates the collective imagination into real world interventions that show what people first cities can look and feel like.
Imaginations of Cities
What People Want?
What Do Super Hosts Say?
Usha, Mysore
Usha is a host from Mysore who hosted the imaginarium and is setting up kitchen gardens and spaces to rest in her society making it more accessible
Prajwal, Bengaluru
Prajwal who hosted the imaginarium is now “doing the loop” in Bengaluru taking the step from the imagination to reality
How are people transforming the cities?
Do The Loop
Bengaluru reimagines public transit infrastructure. Do the Loop encourages commuters to combine buses, metro, cycling, and walking, reducing congestion, emissions, stress, while demonstrating urban mobility.
