Indian artist Sahil Naik guided students in creating through dioramas, memory and the built environment. He prompted children to explore the question: “How do younger generations imagine future cities and what they will comprise?”

The third edition was developed by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren. Entitled The Flag Project, children were invited to think creatively about their environment, collaging together designs that will later be transformed into flags in an extension of the artist’s ongoing project Signs of Abstraction.

With a focus on sustainability, the programme was conceived by Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru, who worked with participants to retrieve and repurpose everyday materials from their homes, transforming them into works of art.

The 2021 edition featured the design studio Studio Sain and gathered 1,800+ children from 70 schools in the UAE for a week-long Noom Project, which allowed children to create an alternative living habitat on a fictitious version of the moon.