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Additionally, in recent years diverse cities, including Trikala (Greece) and Panėvežys (Lithuania) from the GenderedLandscape Action Planning Network, have been increasingly engaging in gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting approaches in urban
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development projects. This entails analysing the city s spaces from a gendered perspective, engaging in public participation targeting women and girls60, and exploring whether money spent on planning and redevelopment benefits all residents equally.
Pordenone city of the future - Using the LARP technique to explore gender and urban planning [Pordenone, Italy]
LARP s Future City Labs © Municipality of Pordenone (2022)
Women represent over half of the Italian population, but they continue to live, move and work in organisational and urban contexts historically designed and coded by men; gender gaps in participation and planning highlight persistent structural imbalances. Against this backdrop, the city of Pordenone sought to develop a participative format that could be applied in medium cities. Their core question was: can we envision a better future from a gendered perspective? The main goal? Raising awareness among the population of the city and embedding gender mainstreaming in planning and policy in the city. The city chose three strategic areas to work on (work, intergenerational and time and spaces) and designed a treasure hunt through the city based on Live Action Role Play (LARP). A path was designed which included stops at schools, supermarkets, municipal buildings, the cinema etc. Women were instructed to answer questions at each stop and find an object from the past and the future. The next point in the path resulted from their answers and choices. The aim of this exercise was to facilitate a new vision among the participants by disrupting usual or habitual paths and offering a new perspective on familiar spaces. The exercise offered a reflexive and immersive approach to thinking about the future of the city that pointed to opportunities and not just problems. The participatory process was a positive action that brought the city closer to the objectives of sustainability, inclusion and equality envisaged by the UN Agenda 2030.
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