Liverpool

Holiday Gift Guide

November 29, 2022Things We Want to Talk About, We Make Places ProjectsCharity, Christmas, Christmas Gift ideas, Gift Guide, Gifts With Purpose, GivingTuesday, independent retail, Life of Ply, Liverpool, Liverpool city region, Small Business, Social Enterprise

We Make Places has created a Holiday Gift guide containing presents with a purpose. As a proud social enterprise, we want to support similar small businesses, social enterprises and charities

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Friends of the Flyover – Renewable Energy Scheme

November 18, 2018We Make Places ProjectsFlyover, Friends of the Flyover, Liverpool, public space

Whilst the outcome from the structural investigations into the Churchill Way flyovers is awaited, we gave an update to a local newspaper about the proposals that the Friends of the

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Luke Jerram proposed artwork for The Flyover Liverpool

Artist Provocateur Proposals

September 28, 2016We Make Places Projectsartist provocateur, cultural programme, Liverpool, Public Art, The Flyover

Our Artist Provocateur project commissioned 4 proposals for our future cultural programme - we are now working to secure funding to deliver them

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Flyover Takeover Film

October 15, 2016We Make Places ProjectsGiraffe, Liverpool, Outdoor Arts, The Flyover, VIP puppets, We Make Places

We have condensed more than 35 hours of community workshops, performances, installations and general good fun up above our city during Flyover Takeover Summer 2016 into around 90 seconds of

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a montage of all the speakers from The Maverick City symposium, Liverpool 2017 by We Make Places

The Maverick City 2017

July 21, 2017We Make Places ProjectsActivists, Cities, Liverpool, symposium, The Maverick City

We've just finished 2017's version of The Maverick City, so here's a quick round up - including a write up by one of the participants

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Building a collaboratively creative city

April 28, 2016Things We Want to Talk AboutCLES, Kate Stewart, Liverpool, New Start Mag, Toria Buzza, We Make Places

New Start Magazine recently came to Liverpool and interviewed us as part of their feature on the city. Editor Clare Goff also asked for blog posts from Kate and Toria

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When Tiny Is Good

April 29, 2015Things We Want to Talk Abouthomeless, Liverpool, Love Activists, Oregon, Tiny Houses

Whatever anyone's impression of the tactics of the Love Activists, they have provided shelter for 50 homeless people, making use of one of Liverpool's vacant buildings. Steve Threlfall explores this

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Plot 6: Parkside Building Design – Happen

March 15, 2015We Make Places ProjectsLime Street, Liverpool, Parkside Building Design

The Vision

Happen is a city centre making space that allows people to collaborate, exchange ideas, innovate, make stuff and make a living. Whether working on a product idea or

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FlyoverFest

March 14, 2015We Make Places ProjectsFlyover, Friends of the Flyover, Liverpool

As part of the consultation process for The Flyover, We Make Places facilitated The Flyover Fest (July 2014) which offered a practical re-imagining of the space. The road was closed

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Baltic Hubspace

March 15, 2015We Make Places ProjectsBaltic, Baltic Triangle, Community Square, Liverpool

We Make Places is based in The Baltic Triangle and we have a long standing relationship with the area and it’s community.

One of our earliest Provocations was for The

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