WAF X Della Townships
Strategic Future Cities Partner
How Should Humanity Live for the Next 100 Years?
At WAF 2026 in Fort Lauderdale, Design Futurist Jimmy Mistry will present his vision of transforming Della Townships India's integrated townships into real-world living laboratories for future-fit human living, bringing together the world's leading minds in Architecture, Design, Hospitality, Technology, Wellness, Sustainability, Mobility and Human Sciences to imagine, test and build new models of human-centric living at township scale.The Global Challenge
No Single Architect, Scientist, Institution or Country holds all the answers.
The challenges shaping the next century of human living are deeply interconnected. Health and longevity, climate change, resource consumption, technological transformation and the design of our built environments cannot be addressed independently.India’s urban transformation presents an extraordinary opportunity to bring together the nation’s scale, diversity, talent and growing research capabilities with international expertise.
Rather than simply adopting a global benchmark, India has an opportunity to help create one by developing and testing ideas in real communities.
About Della Townships India
INDIA IS LEAPFROGGING TO DESIGN THE FUTURE OF HUMAN LIVING FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS.
Della Townships is pioneering future-fit living laboratories across India, turning the ambition into reality at an unprecedented scale.Founded by Design Futurist Jimmy Mistry, Della Townships India is developing a portfolio of integrated townships across India, bringing together themed residential communities, experiential hospitality, wellness, recreation, design, technology and sustainability.
13 Townships | 11 Cities | 4,411 Acres | $ 6.06 Bn. (As on 22 Oct, 2026)
Della International City
Hyderabad
1,750 Acres $2.11 Bn GDV
Della International City
Ahmedabad
1,100 Acres $1.69 Bn GDV
Della Racecourse
Pune
40 Acres $146 Mn GDV
Della Racecourse
Nagpur
328 Acres $277 Mn GDV
Della Racecourse
Raipur
55 Acres $245 Mn GDV
The Concept
Turning Townships into Real-World Living Laboratories
Where the future of human living can be imagined, tested, measured and proven.A Future-Fit Living Laboratory is an integrated township designed not only as a place to live, work and experience life, but also as a real-world environment for multidisciplinary research, innovation and continuous improvement. Della Townships India’s approach connects international knowledge and research with township-scale implementation, creating opportunities to understand what works, what can be improved and what may be replicated elsewhere.
How a Living Laboratory Works: 01 Imagine · 02 Collaborate · 03 Research · 04 Experiment · 05 Operate · 06 Measure · 07 Prove · 08 Replicate
The Manifesto
“As a Design Futurist,
I Don’t Predict the Future of Living. I Build It.
The world doesn’t need another real estate project. It needs a new way of Salutogenic Living, blending design, wellness, & purpose.
Della Townships India are my blueprint for that change.
Pioneering Future-Fit Living Laboratories where global expertise, multidisciplinary innovation and real-world communities come together to explore how humanity should live for the next 100 years.
Where every township becomes a catalyst for social, economic & human impact. Each one redefining how India Lives, Works & Dreams.
Jimmy Mystry
Design Futurist, Master Planner & Creator of Future-Fit Cities CMD, Della Townships India
India will be the laboratory.
The world will be the collaborator.
Humanity will be the beneficiary. “
The Foundations of Future-Fit Living
A Holistic Approach to Human Living
Every Della Township is a Future-Fit Living Laboratory, built around 8 Interconnected Laboratories and 44 Parameters to design, test and shape the future of human living.
The Foundations of Future-Fit Living
The Future is Too Important to Design Alone
We are bringing together the world’s finest minds, visionary architects, leading scientists, anthropologists, distinguished researchers, pioneering innovators, renowned academic institutions, technology leaders and entrepreneurs, driven by a shared ambition to reimagine the future of human living.
The Future is Too Important to Design Alone
Della Townships Impact
Della Townships Impact
Human Impact
Improving everyday wellbeing, quality of life and healthier ageing.
National Impact
Advancing Indian research, technologies, materials, intellectual property and future industries.
Global Impact
Developing tested innovations and replicable models that can benefit communities worldwide.
A Global Invitation
India’s Experiment Is Only the Beginning.
Della Townships India invites architects, designers, scientists, technologists, policymakers, investors and institutions to collaborate, contribute ideas and help shape the future of human living.
India @ WAF
Strategic Future Cities PartnerJimmy Mistry
Design Futurist, Master Planner, Creator of Future-Fit Cities
CMD, Della Township
Paul Finch
Programme Director
World 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.
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, 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
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 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 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.
India @ WAF
Strategic Future Cities Partner
How Should Humanity Live for the Next 100 Years?
The Futurist Roundtable: A Global Dialogue to Design the Future of Human Living.Initiated by Jimmy Mistry, Design Futurist, Master Planner & Creator of Future-Fit Cities, CMD, Della Townships India. In collaboration with the World Architecture Festival.
A continuing global dialogue bringing together the world’s most influential architects, design futurists, scientists, technologists, urbanists, policymakers and industry leaders to collectively reimagine how humanity should live for the next century.
The movement will convene its inaugural roundtable at WAF, followed by dialogues in London, Dubai and India. Beyond conversations, the ambition is to turn global intelligence into measurable, replicable solutions through India’s Future-Fit Living Laboratories adding years to life and life to years.
19 November 2026 | 16:00 17:20 | Fort Lauderdale, USA
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WAF x Della Townships
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