Over two years, more than 25 events, workshops and temporary street transformations took place across the region, bringing together school children, residents, planners, artists and councillors around a simple but radical idea – that imagination and creativity isn’t a luxury in urban design, it’s essential to it.

From street transformations across Yorkshire, to workshops, seminars and multi disciplinary summer schools at The Orangery in Wakefield, People Making Places was an early expression of something we still believe deeply,  that the best places are made when everyone has a seat at the table, and when creativity is valued as a process, and not merely as decoration.

Twenty years on, the questions ‘People Making Places’ asked feel just as urgent. Who gets to shape the places we share? What happens when artists, communities and professionals think together? And what does genuine imagination in the public realm actually look like?

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