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- LUXCITY
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'LUXCITY'. The project description reads:
LUXCITY, the opening event for the Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA), was a city made from light for one night. Over 350 architecture and design students from across New Zealand designed and constructed 16 installations that used light to create spaces for pop-up functions: bars, cafes, live music venues, an all-ages youth venue, a night market and a fashion installation. The whole of Christchurch was invited to return to the currently vacant city centre October 20th to enjoy and experience this unique urban atmosphere. Between 20-30,000 people turned up to the first major event in the central city since the February earthquake.
The designs used light in conjunction with large-scale demolition machinery to create structures that were ephemeral and dealt with the vastness of the urban scale. LUXCITY addressed the potential of transitional projects to stimulate collaboration, explore a range of architectural possibilities, and regenerate the central city, and created excitement and hope for the city's burgeoning recovery.
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- Infogap
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Infogap'. The project description reads, "Fourth year architecture students from Sydney came to Christchurch for a week and worked with members of the Peterborough community to develop ideas in response to the new TC3 land requirements. These ideas were visualised by the students and presented to the community at CPIT. The students also designed and constructed a temporary outdoor exhibition space that was used to exhibit their designs to the community and public on a sunny afternoon in late April".
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- SVA - The Concert
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'SVA - The Concert'. The project description reads, "The Volunteer Army Foundation is hosting an awesome music event to help recreate Christchurch and support volunteering. The Concert is designed to encourage more people to volunteer in their communities to bring back that sense of community we all felt following the quakes. To attend The Concert everyone must do 4+ hours of volunteering - there are no tickets for sale. We aim to get 10,000 people to do 40,000 hours of volunteering".
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- Dairy and Container Colombo Street
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Dairy and Container Colombo Street'. The project description reads, "A dairy that lost its building in the 4 September 2010 quake re-opened in a converted shipping container".
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- Bus Exchange Boundary Seats
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Bus Exchange Boundary Seats'. The project description reads, "Three small garden areas with distinctive plants and colours, two of which also have gabion seats, alongside more conventional planting by CCC at edge of temporary bus exchange and car park".
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- Capitalism Has Collapsed
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Capitalism Has Collapsed'. The project description reads, "A fly poster with a political edge".
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- I Am...
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'I Am...'. The project description reads, "Christchurch street artist THATCHER demonstrated that street art is high art in this homage to Colin McCahon. This audacious, physically demanding installation was only in place for one day as stadium authorities returned the AMI 'smile' the day after the work was created".
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- End of the Line
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'End of the Line'. The project description reads, "A bite-sized rail trolley from Ferrymead Heritage Park was pushed through the Re:START mall by Annie Mackenzie, Dave Marshall and Audrey Baldwin to the end of the line. Part health and safety fiasco, part public parade. The trolley was pushed down the tram tracks repeatedly breaking through red crepe on its journey as the public were invited to let off party poppers in its wake. Or the official text: Audrey, Dave and Annie are three local artists who have been around the block together. As it happened, they were each wondering about the tramline in the mall. They floated the idea of a hand-powered jigger from Ferrymead for the public. Something with history to go with all the newness. The consent went around to a number of people, back and forth and backwards and forwards. And so on. If it moved, or had moving bits, it would need to be licensed. If parked it would be chained and clamped and if the public ever touched it they might just lose a finger. What to do?".
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- Think Differently Book Exchange
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Think Differently Book Exchange'. The project description reads, "Fridge full of books. Pathway of pavers leading to it, drawing people in. A bench between two cabbage trees remaining on the site".
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- Butterfly Gap
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Butterfly Gap'. The project description reads, "A vacant corner site that is now a community space with tables, scarecrows, brightly coloured fence palings, and now a Youth Market every Saturday".
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- Stand Your Ground
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Stand Your Ground'. The project description reads, "Improvised dance performance with video projections".
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- The Silver Bulletin
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'The Silver Bulletin'. The project description reads, "The Silver Bulletin is a Christchurch-based publication that seeks to critically engage with its surroundings. Though The Silver Bulletin was not initially intended to be specifically about Christchurch, the earthquake, and how it is affecting the arts in the city, it can't help but be a re-occurring theme. The publication comes out roughly four times a year and consists of wide-ranging content from disciplines including, but not exclusive to, art, music, architecture and graphic design".
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- Kissing Booth
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Kissing Booth'. The project description reads, "Artist Audrey Baldwin ran a Kissing Booth with a twist. For $2 a pop she sold germ-free smooches to the public through double glazed pane of glass in the Re:START Mall. The result was a carnivalesque comment on the commodification and sanitization of desire, human interaction and the role of the artist/performer as object/ subject".
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- 500 Days: Churchill Park
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled '500 Days: Churchill Park'. The project description reads, "'500 Days' is focused on the creative aspects of Christchurch. It incorporates poetry and messages submitted by everyday Cantabrians. The messages and poetry have been recorded on 500 bricks, which have laid a pathway pointing in the direction of the February 22nd earthquake epicentre. This site is the beginning of something bigger (Churchill Park), with future projects planned for the surrounding space - the In Our Backyard project is a stepping-stone to an area that locals can be proud of".
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- Pages Rd Fulton Hogan Site Mural
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Pages Rd Fulton Hogan Site Mural'. The project description reads, "It includes the idea of loss and hope. The students interpreted Christchurch's emotional and physical landscape. The birds of the wet-land area are prominent. It features the Maori Taniwha in the belly of Papatuanuku and Ruaumoko the god of earthquakes and volcanos. There are also Pasifika icons of tapa siapo, a turtle, and an eagle".
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- Orange Tree
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Orange Tree'. The project description reads, "It was created as a centrepiece for the announcement of the distribution of a one-off special $25 million fund by Canterbury Community Trust. The fund was for the restoration of the fabric of the community since the earthquake, hence the 25 little trees and the use of fabric for the installation. The use of hi-vis fabric reflected the ubiquitous presence within Christchurch. The wrapping was a symbolic bandage".
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- Redcliffs Kidsfirst Kindergarten
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Redcliffs Kidsfirst Kindergarten'. The project description reads, "CLICK-RAFT is an inexpensive fabrication architecture that is inspired by Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, the Citroen TPV, and lego. Click-Leaf architecture is a playful open system which utilizes the qualities of cut plywood in click-leafs and click-beams to form a latticed structure assembled from standard panels, which can be quickly clicked together in different configurations. The spatial logic is laid out in zones for services and various areas. Learning activity can switch modes by utilising different spatial zones. The building typology, together with appropriate teaching support, can be tuned to specific needs".
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- Why is This Real Not That?
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Why is This Real Not That?'. The project description reads, "A placard with a cryptic message outside the Theatre Royal".
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- The Frame
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'The Frame'. The project description reads, "The Frame -Te Taparepare. Defines the central city core, and provides new green space and a range of commercial and residential development opportunities. The Frame will reshape central Christchurch. Its three components - East, South and North - each have their own distinct character, while the Urban Gateways in the north-west and south-east provide vibrant entry points to the central city".
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- Rotherham Clock Park
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Rotherham Clock Park'. The project description reads, "A high quality but modular-construction mini-park which will be relocated (probably into the central city) after temporary use here. Includes seating, flaxes and trees brought from Colombo St Sydenham, and a new busker stage made from pallets".