The digital city as a central built environment is a core concept that I will be working on, across a series of articles. This work will be used to inform the question of how to engage the creative industries in generating future-making interventions for and with city residents that combine place-making practices with active engagement of the incoming reality of immersive futures. It is crucial to locate a digital city in distributed urban geography and through its material and digital layers in order to inclusively situate residents future-making practices within how a city adapts through crises.