Placemaking in Pakistan

16/08/2022

Rediscovering the Identity of Lahore | Ep 3

Mr. Izhar ul Haq is a senior City and Regional Planner and had served in PEPAC for 18 years in his early professional years. He has worked as private consultant for various organizations (national and international) and now owns his own firm "Izhar & Associates Consulting". He has worked on numerous projects pertaining to institutional strengthening and social sector development.

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Pictures shown in this video are taken from the Google.Mr. Izhar ul Haq is a senior City and Regional Planner and had served in PEPAC for 18 years in his ear...

15/08/2022

Rediscovering the Identity of Lahore | Ep 2
Muhammad Wasif Jalal is a City and Regional Planner with a passion of making maps, learning about history, politics, society and cities. He aspires to make Lahore more lively and livable. He wants to inspire people to own their cities and to feel a sense of belonging and responsibility towards it and give back to their cities and their country.
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Muhammad Wasif Jalal is a City and Regional Planner with a passion of making maps, learning about history, politics, society and cities. He aspires to make L...

14/08/2022

Rediscovering the Identity of Lahore | Ep 1

Azbah Ansari is an Architect aspiring to be an Urban Designer, a Placemaking Leader, and a Mental Health Advocate dedicated to making change happen for the community's well-being. Her interest in human behaviors and psychology and love for her city (Lahore) laid the foundation of her organization 'Peacemakers Pakistani' with the vision of creating better places in Pakistan with the help of a placemaking approach and creative solutions.

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Azbah Ansari is an Architect aspiring to be an Urban Designer, a Placemaking Leader, and a Mental Health Advocate dedicated to making change happen for the c...

13/08/2022

75th Independence of Pakistan! 🇵🇰
MashaAllah. Alhumdulilah.
We are celebrating it by owning our city - Lahore and rediscovering its identity and sharing it with you all. Because we believe that in order to give something meaningful to our city and to create beneficial changes in it, we must know the core values, functions and demands of it and of course the history and pattern of how it evolved organically over the years. We have the intention of instilling the sense of love, care, responsibility and ownership towards the city in the people of Lahore and people of other cities and nationalities.
We are grateful to our panel of 12 speakers who are going to present on 12 different topics that will be shared on daily basis for next 12 days individually, and build a content to educate us all and bring to the discussion table topics that we might have been ignoring about our beloved Lahore!
So are you excited about it? Well we are! So stay tuned! The series starts tomorrow InshaAllah.
Peacemakers Pakistani 🇵🇰
We Love Lahore!

10/08/2022

Sara Candiracci, PhD is an urban planner and researcher with 20+ years of professional experience working in the field of sustainable urban development and planning across Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. She is passionate about working with multidisciplinary teams, and using applied research and stakeholders' engagement and participation as entry point to innovation and sustainable transformation.

The Real Play City Challenge is an international competition led by the Real Play Coalition (Arup, Ingka Group [IKEA], The LEGO Foundation, National Geographic, and UNICEF) and PlacemakingX (represented by STIPO and Huasipichanga).

The Real Play City Challenge is awards inspiring cities and urban practitioners that have successfully used placemaking to create environments that give people time, space and opportunities to play and ultimately help cities to overcome pressing global challenges in their local communities and neighbourhoods through playful placemaking.

You can learn more about Real Play City Challenge here:
https://lnkd.in/djTu2ks2

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You can know more about Sara here:https://www.arup.com/our-firm/sara-candiracci The Real Play City Challenge is an international competition led by the Real ...

08/08/2022

The Real Play City Challenge is an international competition led by the Real Play Coalition (Arup, Ingka Group [IKEA], The LEGO Foundation, National Geographic, and UNICEF) and PlacemakingX (represented by STIPO and Huasipichanga).

The Real Play City Challenge is awards inspiring cities and urban practitioners that have successfully used placemaking to create environments that give people time, space and opportunities to play and ultimately help cities to overcome pressing global challenges in their local communities and neighbourhoods through playful placemaking.

We at are delighted to collaborate with realplaycoalition and PlacemakingX and host an interview with the representative of Arup, Ms. Sara Candiracci and learn about the challenge, themes of this year and also the resources that might be helpful in designing playful cities.

Stay tuned for the complete episode on Peacemakers Pakistani Youtube channel.

14/07/2022

Dare yourself to show up!
A common trait we see in all true leaders!

22/05/2022

I have been responding to the talk about cycling events in Lahore with 'Do we really want to commute through bicycles or is it just a hobby? Or Do we have the infrastructure of bicycles?' In short, I have been cynical about this idea and not very open to it personally. Maybe, because I won't choose it for myself to commute. But as professional, it dawned upon me that I am responsible for answering these questions and providing solutions for those who are really willing to do cycling in the city and look forward to these events. Therefore, I asked one of my friend who falls in this category about 'what challenges she face during bicycling in Lahore', so that I can understand the situation and advocate in a way that's suitable for bicyclers in the city.

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I have been responding to the talk about cycling events in Lahore with 'Do we really want to commute through bicycles or is it just a hobby? Or Do we have the infrastructure of bicycles?' In short, I have been cynical about this idea and not very open to it personally. Maybe, because I won't choose....

11/05/2022

Civic Participation w/ Milena Ivkovic | Making it Happen 22.
Milena Ivkovic is an , a public space , and a civic participation # . She leads the Association Placemaking Western Balkans - based in Belgrade, Serbia - a non-profit organization to help create better public spaces for everyone. The Association is promoting the practice of placemaking in the South East Europe region. Milena is also the founder and creative director of BLOK 74 Urban Simulations / Urban Communications based in Rotterdam.

In this episode, we talked about civic participation, innovation, public spaces opportunities and challenges and about placemaking in Balkans.

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Connect with Milena at:https://www.blok74.org/Milena Ivkovic is an architect, a public space designer, and a civic participation innovator. She leads the Ass...

30/04/2022

Explore and Observe w/ Koichiro Tamura | Making it Happen 21
Koichiro Tamura is the Co-Managing Director of Sotonoba/ Placemaking Japan Network. He is an experienced senior consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the international trade and development industry. He is skilled in planning, feasibility studies, transportation, project planning & spatial analysis.

In this episode, Koichiro shared his insights & observations from Japan, his inspiration & priorities & why he started Place Capital & what it is about.

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Koichiro Tamura is the Co-Managing Director of Sotonoba/ Placemaking Japan Network. He is an experienced senior consultant with a demonstrated history of wor...