Over a year, Quarantine took over a house in Irwell Riverside, embedding ourselves in the community and calling it home.

As co-curator and co-producer, I invited artists to stay in the house, creating work that responded to the surrounding neighborhood and Manchester’s rapid transformation into a northern urban “powerhouse.” The project questioned who makes decisions, who benefits, and what is lost or gained in large-scale urban change.

At the end of our tenancy, we hosted Meet the Neighbours: The Weekend—a two-day event at Sachas Hotel. Bringing together residents, developers, planners, artists, academics, and activists, it became an interactive symposium on the city’s fast-paced development and its impact.

Tenancy & Meet the Neighbours were co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme and took place in Manchester and Salford, UK; Béthune, Lillers & Bruay-la-Buissière, France; Lublin, Poland; Marrakech, Morocco; and Groningen, Netherlands.

More information about the project here.