Women & Children-centered Smart Neighborhood Khanewal

Aligned with World Cities Day 2025, this event aims to explore how smart city approaches can create more inclusive, safe, and empowering spaces for women and children - who are often marginalized in urban planning and housing design in developing contexts. In the upcoming affordable housing community in Khanewal, PAHP seeks to co-design housing solutions with local residents rather than for them. Through this event, we will engage directly with community stakeholders —women-led households, youth, children and local representatives — to identify their priorities, safety concerns, and aspirations for smart and livable neighborhoods. Activities • Participatory Visioning Workshops: Residents will collectively envision their future community using interactive visual boards and digital design prompts. • Focus Group Discussions (FGDs): Separate sessions for women and children to ensure inclusive representation in planning. • Gamified Feedback Sessions: Tools like Kahoot! or other interactive polling apps will be used to collect real-time opinions and preferences. • Digital Mapping Exercises: Participants will mark desired locations for parks, lighting, childcare centers, and community facilities using touchscreen or AR-based tools. • Co-creation exercises: Visual and written documentation of participants’ inputs to inform the design of Khanewal’s affordable housing site. Expected Outcomes • A community-driven framework for inclusive housing design tailored to the needs of vulnerable groups. • A replicable participatory toolkit for future PAHP sites across Punjab. • A contribution to the World Cities Day 2025 discourse on crisis-responsive urban development — where local participation is the first step toward resilience.