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Subject: Infra_MANC // Post-war Infrastructure of Manchester
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:03:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: martin dodge <[log in to unmask]>
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Infra_MANC is a public exhibition about the planning, construction and
promotion of four infrastructural projects in central Manchester: two were
completed, two were to remain unrealised. The essence of recovery in
post-war Britain was speed: of movement and of communication - these
propositions epitomise this spirit. To traverse the city two of these
schemes would seek to bury themselves and two to take to the skies.
The Mancunian Way, the never realised Picc-Vic railway tunnel, the Guardian
telephone exchange and fanciful dreams of a city centre heliport are all
examined. These proposals are set against the optimism of the immediate
post-war recovery, the reality of construction in the 1960s and the
economic and political upheaval of the 1970s. Original maps, engineering
schematics, architects' drawings and dynamic marketing visuals, many not
normally seen by the public, are displayed to explore the role of
infrastructure in the contemporary city and to introduce historical
context to these overridingly technological propositions.
The exhibition is curated by Richard Brook (Manchester School of
Architecture) and Martin Dodge (Department of Geography, University of
Manchester), with support and help from MIRIAD, Museum of Transport
Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester County Record Office with the
City Archives.
Photographs of the exhibition are presented here,
http://lookupmanchester.blogspot.com/2012/02/inframanc.html
* Exhibition dates: 27 February - 17 March 2012.
* Free entry, open from Mon-Sat. 12-5.30.
* Location: CUBE Gallery /RIBA Hub, 113-15 Portland Street, Manchester.
* http://www.cube.org.uk/exhibitiondetails/inframanc/77
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Martin Dodge
Department of Geography
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester, M13 9PL. UK.
http://cyberbadger.blogspot.com/
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