The City of 2066

This project was not about imagining a future city, but about entering the act of creation itself.

The City of 2066 was conceived as an immersive exercise where participants were asked to confront uncertainty, responsibility, and consequence, using speculation not as fantasy but as a tool for thinking critically about the world we shape.

Bureau 105 led a design thinking workshop with a multidisciplinary group of students from the University of Malta—future architects, engineers, and urban planners. Their challenge: to imagine a city to be built in the year 2066.

We guided the students to look beyond conventional planning frameworks and explore what innovation, materials, and lifestyles might define the cities of the future. Instead of jumping straight into designs, the workshop began by defining the types of people who might inhabit that world, their needs, behaviours, and desires.

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Through human-centred design, speculative thinking, and collaborative ideation, the group learned how to break out of their technical silos and approach city-making as a cultural, emotional, and ethical task—not just an engineering one.

What began with technical thinking evolved into a holistic understanding of how cities shape society. Seeing engineering students step into roles of empathy, vision and co-creation was one of the most rewarding aspects of this workshop.

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Client: Faculty for the Built Environment. University of Malta
Strategy + Workshop: Luis and Jeanette Muñoz

University of Malta workshop. The City of 2066

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