Infra_MANC exhibition

I have been planning a new exhibition, with an architect colleague Richard Brook from MMU, for the last few months and doing some low-level archival research to find key material to display. The exhibition is called Infra_MANC - for 'Infrastructure Manchester' - and it will examine four key infrastructural projects from the post-war period. There is the iconic Mancunian Way elevated motorway and the 'secret' Guardian underground telephone exchange. We will also present plans, maps and artefacts relating to two other unrealised infrastructural projects in Manchester: schemes in the 1950s for a city centre heliport and then the underground railway route from Piccadilly station to Victoria (the 'Picc-Vic tunnel') which was planned and nearly built in the early 1970s.

We are just in the final push to complete the text for the large exhibition catalogue. Then there will be the panic in a few weeks to get the exhibition material itself installed and ready for the public opening on the 27th February.

Infra_MANC // Post-war infrastructure of Manchester will be on display in the RIBA hub on Portland Street, Manchester, from 27th February to 23rd March. The exhibition flyer gives a bit more detail. (The great design on the exhibition logo and flyer was done by my co-curator Richard Brook.)