Manual Labours: The Building As A Body

Join Manual Labours for the launch of their new publication Building as Body developed following their residency at Nottingham Contemporary where they worked with staff to explore the architecture of the workplace.

The Building as Body looks into the ways in which buildings and bodies are fluid ecosystems which affect each other, mapping how the circulatory, digestive and reproductive systems operate in the cultural institution. What symptoms does this building suffer with? What ways can we diagnose and challenge the conditions that perpetuate them?

The publication is launched at the Wandering Womb, a mobile kitchen and staff room, designed and built with Effy Harle and Finbar Prior as a collective remedy to the often overlooked and hidden needs of staff, for space and time to care, eat and relax during breaks and lunchtime.