Look Up

Look Up. Many of us are guilty of following the same path through the city day after day without taking enough notice of our surroundings. Be it the student passage along Oxford Road, the work commute through Piccadilly Station to the office or the weekly shopping trip on Market Street, do we really know that much about the architecture of Manchester?
Look Up is a student movement, part of the Manchester school of Architecture, which aims to spread awareness of architecture and the architectural community in Manchester. Over the next month, a series of events, workshops and walks will be taking place and we want you to get involved.
Students will be making a series of interventions across the city and surrounding area including a series of sculptures in the centre of the city exploring the sins of consumerism, an architectural solution for the asylum seekers of Manchester and a mural in the area of Barrow-in-Furness. There are 24 groups of students, each exploring a different aspect of architecture, which will all come together in an exhibition on the 22nd May in the EASA HQ.
We are currently in the middle of the Manchester Art and Design Festival (MADF), which brings together architects, the creative industries, Manchester students and the public. Lectures from well-known and emerging architects such as FAT Architects will be taking place every Wednesday until the 20th May. The MSA awards exhibition celebrates new architecture in Manchester, while Futuresonic will be holding a series of mass participatory projects which encourage the public to discover the urban climate of Manchester in new and unexpected ways. The results of this can be seen in an exhibition in the CUBE gallery from the 13th May.