Breathing Space

The team behind the Breathing Space exhibition talk about the consequences and health impacts of air pollution, and what we can do as individuals and as a society to improve the air quality in our cities.

Through Breathing Space, artist Gina Allen highlighted the personal stories of people affected by air pollution to help us visualise a huge problem we just can’t see.

Gina and her academic collaborator Dr Lee Crookes (Urban Studies and Planning) hoped that hearing first hand about the terrible consequences of air pollution – caused by cars, haulage and air travel – would encourage us to rethink some of our own personal choices.