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- SPCA Canterbury
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The Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is a voluntary organisation which provides help to animals and owners 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Their mission is to advance the welfare of all animals in New Zealand by:
- preventing cruelty to animals
- alleviating the suffering of animals
- and promoting their policies through education and advocacy
After the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, SPCA Canterbury worked tirelessly to rescue, treat, and find animals as well as offer temporary care to animals whose owners were forced to evacuate their homes. This collection holds photographs of SPCA Canterbury's post-quake work, the Pet Emergency Plan they put together for owners after the earthquakes, and their media releases.
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- SmartNet Seismics and the City
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Since 1997 SmartNet has connected key business people, researchers, educators and policy makers in order to better tap the talents of New Zealanders in the pursuit of new local and global opportunities. Through short live and online events SmartNet links knowledge generators and innovators with entrepreneurs and policy makers. It promotes knowledge sharing and networking with purpose across old boundaries.
Seismics and the City is an annual one-day forum about organisational behaviour in the face of disaster, disruption or major challenge. The first event was run in March 2012.
The forums provide information, insights and inspiration as well as opportunities for feedback and input as Christchurch recovers from the destructive series of earthquakes from September 2010.
For more information please visit SmartNet Events at www.smartnet.co.nz or phone (+64) (3) 3228293.
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- Townsend Telescope
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The Townsend Telescope is a historic 6-inch refractor telescope made by Thomas Cooke and Sons of York, England in 1864. Gifted to Canterbury College in 1891, the telescope has been housed in the Observatory tower since it was opened in March 1896. Today the telescope is the only part of the Arts Centre still owned by the University of Canterbury. It is open to the public on clear and partly cloudy Friday nights during New Zealand Standard Time. These public viewing sessions are operated free of charge for the promotion of astronomy.
In 2011, the UC Department of Physics and Astronomy undertook a project to restore the optics and mechanics of the Townsend Telescope after it was damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The telescope was damaged when the Observatory tower collapsed, and then again when a digger searched the rubble for trapped individuals. Miraculously the objective lens was found unscathed, meaning that the instrument can be restored. The Department plans to rehouse the restored instrument in the newly built Observatory tower at the Christchurch Arts Centre, returning the working telescope to the Christchurch community.
This collection holds material about the history of the Townsend Telescope, the impact of the Canterbury earthquakes on the Observatory and telescope, and the project to restore the telescope.
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- Gap Filler
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Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative started in response to the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and revised and expanded in light of the more destructive 22 February 2011 earthquake. It is now administered by the Gap Filler Charitable Trust. Gap Filler aims to temporarily activate vacant sites within Christchurch with creative projects for community benefit, to make for a more interesting, dynamic and vibrant city.
This collection is organised by projects and hold images and videos of each Gap Filler project, as well as planning, licensing, and consent documents. To the best of our knowledge, all this material was created by Gap Filler staff. If you have any comments or concerns, please contact Gap Filler at fillthegap@gapfiller.co.nz
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- Environment Canterbury
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- Environment Canterbury (ECan) is the regional council working with the people of Canterbury to manage the region's air, water and land. We are committed to the sustainable management of our environment while promoting the region's economic, social and cultural well-being. The collection comprises photos, documents, reports, and some additional contextual information.
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- The Christchurch Star Company
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The Christchurch Star Company is Christchurch's only locally owned media group. The company is well-known for its publication of The Star newspaper. The Star is the country's third largest newspaper by circulation (and the largest in the South Island) and the country's only free metropolitan newspaper. The company also publishes six community newspapers; several lifestyle and trading magazines; and award-winning feature publications.
The Christchurch Star Company and UC CEISMIC are working together in partnership to make available earthquake-related material and record the on-going recovery and rebuild of Christchurch.
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- Focus360: Red-Zone Virtual Tour
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Focus 360's Red-Zone project aimed to visually document the demolition and rebuild of the Christchurch CBD using virtual tours - interactive 360-degree panoramic photographs. The project later expanded to include virtual tours from the wider Canterbury region.
This collection contains the virtual tours produced from this project. Each item in the collection includes a source link to the Focus360 website, where the virtual tour may be viewed online, and a zip file that may be downloaded. For further details, see http://focus360.co.nz.
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- HIT Lab NZ CityViewAR
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- This collection was put together by the UC CEISMIC programme office, and includes visual and written histories of buildings in the Christchurch city centre. The material collected was used by HIT Lab NZ for their web and mobile application, CityViewAR. HIT Lab NZ, or Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand, integrates research and education, providing students with a project-based learning environment. CityViewAR is a HIT Lab NZ project, and allows users to see virtual buildings overlaid on the real world in an augmented reality web application. It can be used to visualise reconstructed buildings, and show other related information and images on site. The images and research in this collection were gathered from a variety of sources, include the NZ Historic Places Trust, the Christchurch City Council and the National Library of New Zealand. The aim of the collection is to expand coverage of the Christchurch inner city and significant heritage buildings.
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- Becker Fraser Earthquake Photographs
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- Ross Becker and Moira Fraser are a husband and wife team who bring their professional experience in photography, engineering and librarianship to their work as documentary photographers and digital curators. This collection holds photographs from their most well-known project, their photographic documentation of the impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. This project received considerable support from the National Library who commissioned Ross Becker to photograph the impact of the earthquakes on Christchurch. Photograph of Ross and Moira outside ChristChurch Cathedral taken by Richard Linton of Linton Photography.
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- SCIRT Learning Legacy
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The sequence of earthquakes that occurred in Christchurch and wider Canterbury during 2010 and 2011 resulted in very significant damage and disruption to the Christchurch horizontal infrastructure networks.
In response, Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT) was formed and is responsible for repairing and replacing Christchurch's three-waters (water, wastewater and stormwater), roading and bridge networks, as well as some retaining walls and stopbanks.
SCIRT is an alliance between Christchurch City Council, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA), New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), City Care, Downer, Fletcher Construction, Fulton Hogan, and McConnell Dowell.
The SCIRT Learning Legacy project was initiated in collaboration with UC QuakeCentre, Resilient Organisations and UC CEISMIC, in order that all the learnings from SCIRT's earthquake repair and replacement programme are captured, documented, and disseminated.
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- Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre
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The Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre (CCCRC) was set up following the devastating Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, during which many museum buildings in Canterbury were damaged or destroyed. The Air Force Museum of New Zealand's extension was built to house aircraft and large objects for conservation, but since the earthquakes is being used temporarily for the restoration, storage and rehabilitation of heritage and cultural collections.
This collection provides an insight into the challenges and benefits of providing safe and secure premises for the region's collections, many of which are nationally and internationally important.
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- Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
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Heritage New Zealand is a Crown entity, New Zealand’s leading national historic heritage agency and guardian of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national heritage. Heritage New Zealand's work includes identifying our heritage places, seeking to ensure they survive for appreciation by current and future generations, and fostering that appreciation by recording and sharing their stories.
The distinctive characteristics of New Zealand’s land and buildings are important to the way we shape our communities socially, economically, aesthetically and culturally. Conservation of this heritage enables New Zealanders to develop a greater understanding of their history and identity. Part of this heritage is lost forever each time an historic place is irrevocably changed. Heritage New Zealand's goal is to minimise unnecessary losses and damage by ensuring that the value of our heritage is acknowledged before irreversible damage is done.
The Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Earthquake Collection seeks to share stories of Canterbury’s historic heritage and Heritage New Zealand's earthquake recovery effort with researchers and the general public. The aim of this collection is to document the loss and damage to our local heritage during the 2010/2011 Canterbury Earthquakes, while also recording and remembering the built heritage of Canterbury prior to these events.
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- The Pledge
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- The Pledge was a project led by Christchurch lawyer, Garth Gallaway, in collaboration with Rainbow Print, Spicers Paper, Newstalk ZB, Cover to Cover, adgraphix, iSite and The Press. Books were made available in locations around Canterbury for six weeks from 22 March 2011, exactly one month after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. People could sign the books to pledge their commitment to Canterbury and the rebuild of Christchurch. For more information about The Pledge, visit https://www.facebook.com/cantabpledge. This collection holds a digital copy of the books, created with the help of New Zealand Micrographic Services. Signatures and addresses, where present, have been removed in order to protect individuals' privacy.
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- University of Canterbury Emergency Operations Centre
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- The Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is the centre where emergency events are responded to at the University of Canterbury. The main group working out of the EOC is the Incident Management Team. This team is a group of people from various parts of the University community who are pulled together to respond to events as and when they happen. Further groups working from this space include the Strategic Emergency Management Group and the Strategic Communications team. This collection holds material relating to the earthquake events of 2010 – 2011 in Canterbury and the effects and responses to these on campus.
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- Fairfax Media Collection
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Fairfax Media is the largest integrated metropolitan, rural and regional, magazine and digital media company in New Zealand. Its print and digital publications touch New Zealanders the length and breadth of the country every day.
The Fairfax Media collections aim to preserve and make available earthquake-related material gathered by their team.
Fairfax Media and UC CEISMIC are working in partnership to add to these collections and record the ongoing recovery and rebuild of Christchurch.
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- Christchurch Now
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Christchurch Now (#ChchNow) is a series of conversations in the form of podcasts hosted by CEISMIC about where Christchurch is at, five years on from the February 22 earthquake.
The conversations are informal, facilitated discussions about a range of topics related to post-quake Christchurch, with a focus on what we have learnt, our struggles and achievements, and where we are at now.
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- United States of America Embassy New Zealand
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The United States of America Embassy New Zealand (US Embassy) in Wellington, along with the Consulate General in Auckland, provides assistance to American citizens in New Zealand.
After the 22 February 2011 earthquake, the US Embassy responded with two goals in mind: to locate and assist American citizens in distress, and to mobilize US Government resources to assist local authorities in preserving life and addressing urgent humanitarian needs.
This collection holds photographs, videos, press releases, and blog posts about the US Embassy's involvement in the Canterbury earthquakes, and the achievement of these two goals.
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- Whole House Reuse Project
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Whole House Reuse is a project facilitated by Rekindle and supported by SIFT. It was created to make explicit the scale and breadth of materials of one modest home in order to deliver a broader understanding of the waste occurring as a result of demolition in Christchurch and throughout the country, and to provoke problem solving and innovation around future uses for materials currently being treated as waste.
Over seven days in August and September 2013 a professional salvage crew from Silvan Salvage led by Graham Thompson fully deconstructed a single-storey red-zoned home at 19 Admirals Way situated in the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton. Along with a team of volunteers, the entire material of the home, aside from the concrete ring foundation, was dismantled by hand and transported into storage. From there, 480 materials listings have been recorded in the Catalogue of Resources that Whole House Reuse is now presenting to the creative community of New Zealand during its Design stage.
This amazing record of the material of one home is contained within a book, 'Whole House Reuse: Deconstruction', that was released at the launch of the Design stage (30 January 2014). This publication also tells the story of the project so far, with photographic and written documentation of the salvage of 19 Admirals Way, a conversation with the homeowners, and a research paper on deconstruction in New Zealand.
This collection holds the 'Whole House Reuse: Deconstruction' catalogue as well as the photographs of each individual item salvaged from the house. Photographs of the artwork and designs created by the Whole House Reuse material will also be added to the collection at a later stage.
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- Academic Research
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- This collection holds research contributed by academics from the University of Canterbury and other tertiary institutions.
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- All Right?
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All Right? is a social marketing wellbeing campaign focused on the psychosocial recovery of Cantabrians following the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. It was launched in 2013.
All Right? is unique in promoting population-wide psychosocial wellbeing following a disaster. It is led by the Canterbury District Health Board and the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, and sits within the Community in Mind Strategy (CERA 2014) for rebuilding health and wellbeing in Greater Christchurch.
The reach and impact of All Right? illustrates that properly-resourced health promotion can be effective in supporting psychosocial recovery. In April 2017 All Right? released its latest survey on Cantabrians’ mental health as the region recovers from the earthquakes. The research showed there has been some improvement in how people are feeling since the survey was first carried out in 2012:
- Fewer respondents reported that their current living conditions were getting them down (18% in 2016, 24% in 2012).
- More respondents reported that their life was better now than before the earthquakes (34% in 2016, 19% in 2012).
- There is a lot of hope and optimism in the region with 72% of those surveyed saying they feel lucky, 89% happy and 74% excited about the future.
- It is also clear that the earthquakes and recovery related-stressors are still affecting Cantabrians’ wellbeing, with 64% of those surveyed still grieving for what we’ve lost.
To view all current projects, visit the All Right? website: www.allright.org.nz/our-projects