air tour

How do we talk about an invisible element? How has Manchester’s attitude to its air changed over time? How does the city breathe along with us?

Join The Material City air walking tour to find out.

We’ll meet in front of the statue of Queen Victorian in Piccadilly Gardens, and we’ll walk just over 1.5 miles over 2 hours to Mayfield Park.

On the way we’ll chat about smog, miasma, birds, planes, and wind. We’ll be talking about what is actually in air, how air moves through our bodies, and how humans change air. There will be stories about hot air balloons, sailing ships, politics, and train brakes.

And during all this, we will be thinking “what happens if we see the human body as a porous entity?”