Night walk, locations in Manchester

A key theme that we felt set us apart from other design festival is that we wanted to be at night and attach/ complement a daytime festival, to find a good location that worked at night we decided not waste any time and go for a night walk around Manchester. Bringing with us glow sticks and a bubble wand to see how well these elements worked in a night environment and were we could find a location that we could manipulate the amount of light shining on it not wanting any streetlights but complete darkness

Cathedral  gardens was an area that we particularly took a liking to as it was pretty central and has also clearly been tried to be regenerated with  floor of glow in the dark fountains. Having been in Manchester for second year I had never come across this area and we all though it had all the elements we needed. The fountains could be a good base for the centre area of the festival and then there are tunnels linked to the Victorian Arch’s which we could manipulate lighting wise, it also lead to a big load of abandoned car parks which we all felt would be great to encourage the ‘organic’ growth we had been talking about.

photo: Martina, me and Ursula

Photographs I took in New York from the top of the Rockefeller, the light and movement emulated in a bigger scale of what we did on our Night walk.