Nocturnal Imaginaries

How do the multi-sensory experiences and aesthetics of nocturnal places enable us to reimagine how those environments might be? In addition, who inhabit urban night through their labour engage with its develop knowledge specific geographies? This paper draws upon ongoing autoethnographic fieldwork including encounters exchanges a range workers creative practitioners based in city Manchester, UK, explore entanglements between light dark, work respite, creativity place. proposes that understanding nightscapes are used differently by various people is valuable shaping they may evolve. critical importance if we wider deeper knowledges situated, relational, practised nature after be able rethink reclaim it as time place considers accessibility equity.