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- Gap Filler Project 07: Think Differently Book Exchange
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- The Think Differently Book Exchange is an internationally recognised community project that encourages members of the public to participate in a book exchange scheme. Gap Filler set up a fridge on an abandoned building site in the city centre with a yellow path leading up to the door. Passers-by are invited to take a book, or come back later and leave one.
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- Gap Filler Project 01: It All Begins Here
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- "It All Begins Here" was an event space on the site of the demolished South of the Border Restaurant and Denis Moore Auto Electrician on Colombo Street. The space housed a temporary garden cafe, a petanque court, live music, poetry readings and an outdoor cinema.
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- Gap Filler Project 12: "I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced my Sense of Humour"
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- "I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced my Sense of Humour" is a mural painted by New Zealand artist Wayne Youle in a vacant lot on Colombo Street in Sydenham. The project was a collaboration between Gap Filler and The Christchurch Art Galley and the first artwork in the Gallery's Outer Spaces programme. Inspired by memories of his grandfather's workshop, Wayne designed a huge shadow board like those found in sheds and garages everywhere. The items of the board represent those who lent their tools and their hands after the earthquakes as well as the things that people lost.
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- Gap Filler Project 27
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- "In Our Backyard" was a design competition where students were asked what they would put on a vacant site in Christchurch. The six winning ideas were given $500; a mentor from Entre; and lots of advice from the Gap Filler team. On 28 July 2012, six ideas were realised on vacant sites in Richmond, New Brighton and the Central City. These sites were a BMX/Pump Tack in the Cafe Valentino Gap; a labyrinth in the site of St Luke's Church; Street Soccer of St Asaph Street; Foamapalooza, a children's foam playground in New Brighton; 500 days, an art mural in Richmond; and a Life Size Board Game in North Shore.
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- Gap Filler Project 04: Gap Filler Fun Fair
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- The fourth Gap Filler project was a fun fair put together to raise money for The New Zealand Red Cross and Gap Filler. The fair featured craft and bake sales, carnival games, a bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, races and a concert organised by the Addington Action Committee.
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- Gap Filler Project 06: 1950s themed bowling alley, CPIT Design/Build
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- The 1950s themed bowling alley was a project put together by Architecture students at the Christchurch Polytechnic. The vacant site of the Jetset Lounge on St Asaph Street underwent a transformation into a bowling alley, inspired by its previous use as a student recreation venue. The architectural design students created a temporary, interactive ten-pin bowling installation where anybody could go and play ten-pin bowling for free. A 1950s theme was embraced through the running of the Jetset event.
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- Gap Filler Project 02: Ortszeit
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- Ortszeit is an exhibition of photographs documenting architectural change in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall. Taken by Stefan Koppelkamms, the photographs were brought to Christchurch by Gap Filler and laid out in an empty building site for the public to view.
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- Gap Filler Project 13: 10 Square Metre Office Building
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- The 10 Square Metre Office Building was a project conducted by SHAC (Sustainable Habitat Challenge) and a small group of young people. They built a sub-consent (10 square metre footprint in total) building on a vacant site in Sydenham which was then donated to Gap Filler to serve as their head office. It was built with recycled materials and material recovered from demolitions, and can be relocated to other sites.
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- Gap Filler Project 15: Dance-O-Mat
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- "Dance-O-Mat" is a dance floor created by Gap Filler on a vacant site in the central city. It has coin-operated lighting and sound courtesy of a converted washing machine. Anybody can come to the site, plug in their mp3 player with their own music and get dancing. Dance-O-Mat was created in response to the loss of dance studios and performance spaces in Christchurch after the earthquakes. The aim of the project was to give the Christchurch community a unique dance experience and to bring life back into the broken city.
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- Gap Filler Project 30: Rock on Eastside
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- Rock on Eastside was an outdoor lounge and art space on the corner of Linwood Avenue and Aldwins Road. The space was set up by local high school students from Youthtown's afterschool programme, with the help of students from the University of Canterbury. Rocks from all over Christchurch were gathered by the students to be painted and laid in patterns on the site.
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- Gap Filler Project 18: Gap Golf
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- Gap Golf is a project created by Gap Filler where mini-golf courses were built in vacant building sites around the central city. Challenges have been held by Gap Filler where members of the public are encouraged to go on foot or cycle around the course to get a feel for the city as it is now, as well as participate in a mini-golf tournament. Clubs and balls are supplied by Gap Filler and managed by local businesses.
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- Gap Filler Project 19: Thinking Outside the Square
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- Thinking Outside the Square was a video installation run by Gap Filler. Footage featuring Cathedral Square was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years. This was screened on multiple monitors on the former site of the Beggs Building on Colombo Street.
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- Gap Filler General Documents
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- General documentation from the Gap Filler Trust, including the Gap Filler Trust Deed, a blank licence to occupy form, Gap Filler's submissions to the Draft City Plan, the Gap Hunt booklet and a letter of support from a property owner.
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- Gap Filler Project 16: Playtime
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- Playtime was an outdoor cinema and temporary architecture project on a vacant building site on St Asaph Street. It was the result of a competition created in association with Gap Filler and the New Zealand/France Friendship Fund. Members of the public were asked to design and build a 'gap' inspired by Jacques Tati's film "Play Time" (1967) for Gap Filler's outdoor film screenings of Tati's films in March 2012. Barnaby Bennett, Mark Leong and Nick Sargent won the competition with their group entry "The Night Club", a gap where the form of a cinema is suggested by lights and rebar sculptures rather than supporting materiality.
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- Gap Filler Project 09: As Far as Eye Can See
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- "As Far as Eye Can See" was a gallery sized crochet artwork, displayed at The Colombo shopping centre. It consisted of an eye made out of crochet, created by 22 Adelaide women who wanted to refocus the attention onto post-earthquake Christchurch. Gap Filler also commissioned artist Briar Cook to work with the community and create a companion artwork, a collection of small mandala-like objects woven from the materials that were ubiquitous during the rebuilding of the city: tarpaulins, high visibility fabrics and industrial work-wear. These mandalas were displayed alongside the crocheted eye. Christchurch businesses and the wider community were invited to bid in an online auction to purchase the artwork. The plan was to use the money raised by the artwork to help Gap Filler with other projects.
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- Gap Filler Project 24: Concrete Propositions
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- Presented by Gap Filler and the Christchurch Art Gallery, Concrete Propositions is a huge abstract painting by Melbourne-based artist Ash Keating. Keating created the art work by firing paint from fire extinguishes onto a concrete wall on Worcester Street that had been revealed by demolition.
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- Gap Filler Project 23: Re-Entry Youth Concert
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- Re-Entry was a concert envisioned by a group of eight 14-17 year olds from St Andrews College, St Margarets, Cashmere High School and Hagley Community College. Students activated a vacant site in the central city, where bands from Cashmere High School, Boys High School, St Andrews College and the CPIT Jazz school played, and films made by St Andrews College film students were shown. Over 150 high school students attended the event, an important step towards people feeling comfortable in a city environment once again.
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- Gap Filler Project 22: Pallet Pavilion
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Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion was a transitional architecture project which functioned as a community space and venue for events. A visually engaging and dynamic space, the Pallet Pavilion was made from over 3000 wooden pallets using professional and community labour. It was a testament to the effectiveness of a collaborative and community-minded process. Thursday to Sunday, it hosted live music, an outdoor cinema and a wide range of other events. It was also available for hire by any individual or community organisation at other times.
In April and May 2014, the Pallet Pavilion was deconstructed by volunteers and the pallets and crates were returned to CHEP who kindly lent them to Gap Filler for the project
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- Gap Filler Project 05: Words of Hope, CPIT Design/Build
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- "Words of Hope" was a project put together by Architecture students at the Christchurch Polytechnic. A vacant site on Ferry Road was transformed into a symbolic human-scale Christchurch City with recycled and found objects serving as the buildings. These 'buildings' were painted white and visitors to the site were encouraged to share their ideas and words of hope and support by tagging or writing on them.
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- Gap Filler Project 08: Lyttelton Petanque Club
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- The Lyttelton Petanque Club was a multi-purpose public space with a performance stage, community garden, handmade tables and benches, and a petanque pitch, on the corner of London and Canterbury Streets in Lyttelton. The site was created and maintained by Gap Filler in collaboration with Volcano Radio, Project Lyttleton and volunteers from the community.