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During this project I kept coming across the term'placemaking' and I wasn't exactly sure what it meant, but it seemed to be relevant to thinking about how we might preserve and expand green and quiet spaces in urban setting. Placemaking is a multi-dimensional approach to the planning, creation and sustainability of public spaces that has the potential to build relevant healthy and joyous spaces for everyone in our villages, towns and cities. See this interesting recent blog p

Extract from: What makes us healthy? An introduction to the social determinants of health, report by The Heath Foundation March 2018

Thanks to Andrew Stevenson at MMU for sending over the finished film about a psycho-geographical reflection on place, nostalgia and walking, by four undergraduate students from Manchester, UK. Please see their previous blog post

As part of our celebration event at Elizabeth Gaskell's house on the 26th June, Slap-Dash Publishing launched three new books published during our MMQS project. Slap-Dash Publishing is our in-house community publishing project that has been running since 2005 and in which we have worked alongisde local artists and authors to help people produce the books that they want to make using print on demand technology and Adobe Creative Suites for design and layout. In this small coll