Place Wisdom – this place [in colour]

Libraries that aren't just for books but also toys, things you need all sorts! Create a community exchange.
- Peter

To dare, to take risk, to bear uncertainty, to endure tension - these are the essence of the play spirit
- Huzinger

Those who say it cannot be done shouldn't interrupt the people doing it!
- Anon

Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast but danger and possibilities are sisters.
- Rebecca Solnit

This town is our future and we can either move away and forget about it or actually take action to make it a place that young people will want to stay and build their lives here. If it is run by the community all together, everybody has an impact on their town and its future.
- Peter

Rainbow crossings! A safe way to cross the road and very colourful too
- Tegan

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing
- Raymond Williams

If the community is not there, it is not a placemaking project – it is a Placewash!
– Cara Curage
- Cara Curage

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way
- Alan Watts

Humans will always be innately social beings - we will always want to get together, to celebrate, to share experiences. It’s time to alter our course - to steer our town centres back to being the heart of our social lives; the places we live, work and socialise.
- Wayne Hemingway

Colour is like a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell.
- Roland Barthes

You already know what to do.
- Seth Godin

Manchester DNA is protest and action!
- Claire Tymon

I like vibrant, welcoming and attractive colours that can bring the street to life and appear to younger people, so they like to visit.
- Daniel