What Would Dubai Look Like If Kids Ran It?
Humanscape is running two evening workshops where young people can design a future Dubai, decide what gets funded and work out where AI could help.
yapped Editors · Nov 13, 2026 · 1 min read
Quick facts
- Workshop
- If I Owned a City of the Future – Dubai Edition
- Where
- Workshop 2, Emirates Towers
- Listed cost
- AED 150 pp
- Ages
- 8–14
Your kid already has notes on how things should be run. At Dubai Future Week, someone’s finally asked to see them.
Humanscape’s workshop asks young people to design a version of Dubai around the people who live in it. Working in teams, they’ll decide what businesses to open, how to brand them and where to spend the budget. The tallest building can wait.
What Would They Change?
The teams will think about what makes a neighbourhood work, how to power it and where AI could help responsibly. It’s a good fit for kids who like building things, inventing things or explaining exactly how they’d improve things.
“It’s a good fit for children who like building things, obvs”
When to go
There are two one-hour public sessions, both at The District, outside Emirates Towers:
- Wednesday 18 November, 6pm–7pm
- Friday 20 November, 6pm–7pm
Make an Afternoon of It
The workshop is part of The District, Dubai Future Week’s public programme outside Emirates Towers. It runs 10am–10pm, with food, design and technology experiences to explore before the session. The REALIITY creative labs have their own registration, so book those separately if they’re on your list.