India @ WAF
Strategic Future Cities Partner
Jimmy MistryDesign Futurist, Master Planner, Creator of Future-Fit CitiesCMD, Della Townships India
Paul FinchProgramme DirectorWorld Architecture Festival
Pioneering Future-Fit Laboratories for Human Living
Paul Finch, Programme Director, WAF In conversation with Jimmy Mistry, Design Futurist, Master Planner, Creator of Future-Fit Cities, CMD, Della Townships India.
A fireside conversation reimagining townships as Living Laboratories that bring global expertise into real-world communities.
Across architecture, longevity, carbon sequestration, circular materials and intelligent infrastructure, the conversation examines how ideas can be prototyped, measured and refined to improve how the world builds and lives.
Can knowledge pioneered in India help shape the future of human living worldwide?
18 November, Wednesday 2026 | 17:00 to 17:30 Fireside Chat | WAF 2026, Fort Lauderdale Florida
Designing the Next 100 Years of Human Living
For Jimmy Mistry, Founder & CMD of Della Townships India, a lifetime of designing experiences across Architecture, Interiors, Hospitality, Adventure and Real Estate has led to a larger question: How should humanity live for the next 100 years?
Cities designed for another era must respond to a world transformed by Technology, Climate, Longevity, new ways of working and an evolving relationship between people and nature.
This demands more than better buildings. It demands a new way of thinking about human living.
That Belief Led to the Creation of Della Townships India
Envisioned as real-world laboratories for future-fit living, these integrated luxury townships bring together Architecture, Technology, Nature, Wellness, Mobility, Hospitality, Work, Entertainment and Human Experience within one ecosystem.
Alongside commercially successful developments, Della Townships India is creating platforms for experimentation and research, from microalgae-based carbon capture and converting landfill waste into next-generation construction materials to Salutogenic Planning, Biophilic and Biomimetic Architecture, Regenerative Systems and Invisible Technologies.
Architects, designers, engineers, scientists, researchers, technologists and specialists from India and around the world are coming together to test, commercialise and build the future.
“The Future Cannot Only be Discussed. It Has to be Built.”
At the heart of this vision is an ambition to reverse the lens for the world to look towards India for ideas shaping the next generation of human living. Della Townships India aims to create places that add years to life and life to years, centred on human wellbeing, experiences, community and nature, while remaining commercially viable and scalable.
This is an ongoing experiment across townships, laboratories, disciplines and global collaborations, continually questioning how people can live better. The ambition extends beyond Della: to contribute to a larger body of knowledge and establish India as a place where ideas shaping the next 100 years are imagined, tested and built.
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WANT TO IMPACT THE WORLD? LET'S COLLABORATE.
At Della Townships India, we believe the future is built through collaboration. We invite individuals, companies, research institutions and organizations to join our Future-Fit Living Laboratories, where ideas, research and innovations can be tested, developed and implemented in real-world townships.
If you believe you can shape how humanity lives for the next 100 years, let’s collaborate!