A Live Well Union in Manchester
Reimagining a Live Well Union explores how architecture can support the everyday wellbeing, visibility, and collective agency of precarious workers in Manchester. Focusing on care workers, delivery riders, and factory workers, the project identifies Miles Platting as a neighbourhood where these forms of labour intersect through living, working, and movement.
The proposal transforms the existing Miles Platting Community Library into a phased Live Well Union that evolves from spaces of rest into programmes of exchange, support, advocacy, assembly, and modular pod production. Through lightweight scaffolding systems, recycled materials, and participatory construction methods, the Union becomes both a civic infrastructure and a platform for activism.
Extending beyond Miles Platting, the project proposes a future network of distributed interventions across Manchester, reimagining architecture as an evolving infrastructure of care that grows alongside the workers and communities it supports.
