The Public

One of our main problems with our design festival is getting the pubic involved, making people want to go and want to participate. The response from most people is that they aren't "creative", which is a very negative view. We have come up with some questions which we asked people around Manchester.

1. What is your favourite place in manchester?
2. Why is it significant to you?
3. What's the best thing that's happened to you in manchester?
4. What's the worst thing that's happened?
5. What the most random thing you've seen/heard/experienced in manchester?

From this we got a mix of responses, from the strange to the very helpful. We found that the main problems people have with the city are crime and the weather. The best parts are people making friends and meeting their partners. This has helped us as we feel people will be wanting to participate as they want to meet new people and make memories. 

What is your favourite place in manchester?
1. Town hall square
2. Odd bar
3. Dunham Massey
4. Manchester centre – Piccadilly
5. Oxford Road
6. Font
7. General area – Northern Quarter, Place – Salutation bar
8. City centre, Deansgate
9. Fletcher Moss gardens, Didsbury
10. Temp
11. The town centre, so much to do, so much to see. Something for everyone to enjoy
12. Heaton park
13. Chorlton

Why is it significant to you?
1. Its not
2. Its cool
3. Days out with the children when they were younger
4. A good and safe place to visit
5. Work
6. Cocktails and friends
7. Friendly place to get together with class mates and friends
8. Atmosphere, Shopping
9. Romantic memories
10. Friends
11. I guess being a Mancunian, I love my city
12. Big park near where I live, bike rides, picnics with friends
13. School days and home

What's the best thing that's happened to you in manchester?
1. Completed degree
2. Met friends
3. Grandson being born
4. The NHS
5. Working at the Midland hotel
6. Met new friends
7. Met new friends through uni. Got involved with a radio station
8. Career
9. Meeting my partner
10. Meeting my fiance
11. Seeing my family grow up in and around the city
12. Meeting a large variety of people/boyfriend. Family – niece born and lives near here
13. Waiting for my son to be born

What's the worst thing that's happened?
1. Got fired
2. Lost friends
3. Being robbed twice
4. A house burglary
5. Nothing
6. Exams
7. Nothing yet
8. Weather (rain)
9. Getting very ill five years ago
10. Loosing my cool shit
11. My son was mugged
12. Break ups
13. Losing my wife

What the most random thing you've seen/heard/experienced in manchester?

1. That crazy bus lady on 142

2. The bus woman

3. Lots of weird thing, big city, lots of people

4. Friendly people / environment

5. Blank

6. Bus woman

7. Horses being trained on busy road holding up traffic. Not that random but all I can think of right now

8. Can't think

9. Bumping into my friend from Sheffield who still lived in Sheffield

10. Man with parrot

11. I once saw a penguin land on a guard, apparently it “escaped” from the local zoo

12. A big hare, a man used to take it into the pubs in Withington

13. Death on the road