AOD and Cinnamon Life unite for "What's Your Colombo?"

Design-led movement to celebrate the city through its stories

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WHAT'S Your Colombo?, a two-year, design-led initiative by the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF), conceptualised by the Academy of Design (AOD), has set out to celebrate Colombo as a creative, cultural, and experiential capital through the eyes of its people.

Launched in partnership with Cinnamon Life at City of Dreams, one of Colombo’s most dynamic destinations for culture, business, and leisure, the campaign invites citizens, communities, and brands to rediscover the city through design, storytelling, and collaboration.

As part of AOD’s mission to extend design thinking beyond industries into the public realm, What’s Your Colombo? demonstrates how design can influence the spaces we inhabit, the stories we tell, and the futures we imagine. Through SLDF Sri Lanka’s leading platform for creative dialogue and innovation, AOD brings together education, industry, Government, and the public to reveal how cities can be redefined through creativity and design-led thinking.

AOD Founder and Chairperson Linda Speldewinde said: “What's Your Colombo? began as an idea. For too long, people have passed through Colombo without really seeing it, perhaps because we haven't yet found the words to describe what our city truly is. So, what is Colombo? It’s many Colombos—yours, mine, ours—each with its own soul.