We Make Places is a Community Interest Company, based in Liverpool, UK which is writing, living and delivering a manifesto for change across the built environment.

We help communities to develop their identities through creative, land or building based projects. Most importantly we create fun and focused design and participation processes which develop the sense of community and leave individuals taking part with new transferrable skills.

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Things We Want to Talk About

We get up to lots of things, read lots of things, see lots of things and sometimes we like to rave (or rant) about them – sometimes we do it just to provoke and start the conversation – join in!

#IWantSpace

June 28, 2018Things We Want to Talk AboutIWantSPACE, manifesto, public space, space

Join our conversation about pubic space, how it gets used, who owns it & who pays for it and how we can make it better. Join the #IWantSPACE conversation on

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Labels, Labels, Labels – thoughts from our CEO on creativity

February 26, 2018Things We Want to Talk AboutCities, Creative Producers International, Creativity, Kate Stewart, We Make Places

Labels, labels, labels – something I have struggled with most of my life: a daughter, a wife, never a student, a stage manager, an entrepreneur, a producer, another wife, a

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A NEW KIND OF HERO

October 31, 2017Things We Like, Things We Want to Talk About

It is important that we retain public space in our towns and cities that small organisations and community groups as well as families and individuals can ‘programme’ and interpret over

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Community Build at WECC

July 31, 2017Things We Want to Talk About, We Make Places Projectscommunity build, We Make Places, WECC

The day after The Maverick City symposium was an important one for We Make Places and West Everton Community Council……we had decided that this year, our symposium would give something

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Plywood with Soul

July 20, 2017Things We Want to Talk About, We Make Places ProjectsCNC cutting. Medialab Prado, ECF, Madrid, plywood furniture, Steve Threlfall

Plywood with Soul is about co-creating livable spaces & transforming bare accommodation into a home or making community spaces usable on a limited budget using CNC technology. Steve's residency in

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How was the Takeover 2016

October 10, 2016Things We Want to Talk About, We Make Places Projectscultural programme, dance, Flyover Takeover, Friends of the Flyover, installation, performance, The Flyover, We Make Places, workshops

Our summer 2016 Flyover Takeover programme was ambitious, exhausting, wonderful, joyous, moving and experimental. It included 5 Sundays of road closure where the south carriageway of Churchill Way became a

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The Mavericks are Coming – RIP Regeneration

July 21, 2017Things We Want to Talk Aboutactivism, Cities, Dr Nicola Headlam, nicola headlam, peoples powerhouse, red ninja, research, We Make Places

We've decided the time has come to stop ONLY talking (we are great fans of talking, we do it a lot with our clients) and start DOING

Would you like

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Flyover Takeover Programme announced

June 21, 2016Things We Want to Talk About

Dance, music, performance and conversation return to Liverpool’s Churchill Way Flyover in summer festival celebrating culture and community.

An acoustic picnic, making and planting, cycling projects, an Urban Workbench, street

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The Maverick City 2016

June 21, 2016Things We Want to Talk About

Join the team from We Make Places and lots of other inspiring people talking about their experiences of working with communities and public spaces

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Maverick City

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Visible Rio

June 6, 2016Things We Want to Talk AboutKate Stewart, Olympics, People's Palace Projects, Provocations, Public Art, Rio

Steve Threlfall writes about his experience of accompanying Kate Stewart of We Make Places to Rio de Janeiro last week to assist her on a brilliant and humbling project ‘Rio

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