📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
This Thursday Gathering, delivered in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University’s Fashion Institute, explores how fashion and textiles are being reshaped by sustainability, regulation and innovation. Bringing together researchers, startups, corporates and organisations including Age UK, the session will examine shifting legislation, supply chain disruption and the rise of regenerative business models. With Manchester’s rich textile heritage as a backdrop, the event will consider how the region can once again play a leading role in the future of materials and manufacturing. Through panel discussion and community dialogue, we’ll explore what a more sustainable, resilient and responsible fashion ecosystem could look like.
In partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University’s Fashion Institute
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📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
The climate is changing - and it risks becoming a crisis. Scientists warn we are close to crossing critical tipping points, food systems are under growing strain, and the UK remains dangerously underprepared. But within emergency is the opportunity for innovation, transformation, and enacting a community-centred just transition.
Bringing together leading actors and innovators from across Manchester's climate tech and sustainability community, this will be an evening of honest conversation to spark creative energy and find common, collective purpose.
Following a screening of the National Emergency Briefing (a landmark film featuring ten of the UK's leading experts on climate, nature, food security, energy and health, first delivered in Parliament), we will shift to solutions: the innovations, businesses and communities already building a better future for people and planet.
In partnership with People, Planet, Pint
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📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
The Female Founders Takeover is a bold and inspiring evening bringing together female founders, entrepreneurs, and allies to connect, collaborate, and share their voices.
Designed to unite and amplify the largest collective of female founder communities in the North, the event creates a powerful space where women in business come together under one roof to connect, support, and grow.
Alongside meaningful conversations and honest storytelling, the event will also showcase female-led businesses, giving founders the opportunity to share their products and services with an engaged and supportive audience.
The evening is about more than networking, it’s about visibility, collaboration, and creating real opportunities for women to be seen, heard, and supported in business.
In partnership with Bruntwood SciTech
Bruntwood SciTech is the UK’s leading developer of city-wide innovation ecosystems, specialising in environments and workspaces that empower science, tech and innovative companies to form, scale, and grow. Its network connects the UK’s most ambitious cities, regions and innovation communities through collaboration and a unique public, private, academic, clinical partner network.
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📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
Some 25 years ago Richard Rogers proposed an urban renaissance for cities across the UK. It was a moment of optimism for an urbanised world that, some ten years ago, the United Nations identified had become the most common mode of living for peoples around the globe. The intervening years have brought many criticisms, with cities being seen as places of inequality, social injustice, unsustainability and sites of global health problems. They can, of course, also be places of economic opportunity, cultural creativity, intelligent design and cutting edge architecture and planning. In this context, the conference explores diverse readings of the places we inhabit: their design, planning, management, social policies and cultural trends.
In partnership with the University of Salford and Amps
Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS) is an interdisciplinary academic research organisation exploring how cities and the built environment shape social, cultural, political, and technological life. Through global conferences, publications and collaborations, AMPS brings together scholars and practitioners to examine critical issues in architecture, urbanism, sustainability, media, and public policy that influence how we live in and experience cities.
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