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- Poetica Urban Poetry Project
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Poetica Urban Poetry Project'. The project description reads, "Elise van Bentem and Kirsty Rusher created Poetica Urban Poetry project in the hope of creating a space for Christchurch people to write poems in public. The Instant Poetry project is a small blackboard painted to represent a Polaroid photo. People can write their poem on the board, then photograph it and post it on Facebook. The most 'liked' poem at the end of one month was painted on the wall to remain for some months into the future".
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- Community Hub - Sumner
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Community Hub - Sumner'. The project description reads:
For the first few weeks after the February earthquake, there were few signs of an official reaction to the disaster on the ground. Realising that the authorities were occupied with the destruction of the Christchurch CBD, the residents of Sumner commandeered the 'old' school hall at Sumner Primary school which had been scheduled to be demolished, but survived the quake without damage and set up a community information and disaster coordination centre.
The Sumner Community Hub provided information, distributed supplies and ran volunteer classes for local children for nearly a month. On 15 March 2011, a public meeting was held, inviting members of the community to join special interest sub-groups to get involved in rebuilding Sumner. Various sub groups were formed as on the Umbrella Diagram: a loose coalition of local people who believe that their community can overcome the destruction of February 2011 and become better, stronger, and more sustainable than before.
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- Community Chess
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Community Chess'. The project description reads:
A collaboration with students from the University of Canterbury, this project finally restores an iconic Christchurch activity to the city. Free to play. Pick up the key to the chest full of pieces from the new Honey Pot Cafe next door.
Interesting how it has worked with neighbouring businesses, in particular the Sausage Sisters, who now set the pieces out on every nice day and pack it up, and use the outdoor space for tables, etc.
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- Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury'. The project description reads, "57 temporary classrooms and offices on the University of Canterbury campus. The units are arranged into pods of seven, each containing kitchenette, bathroom facilities and a rainwater garden".
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- Lyttelton Urban Downhill
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Lyttelton Urban Downhill'. The project description reads, "This event is about the Lyttelton community and downhill mountain community. Neither of these communities wish to be considered mainstream, both are due much more credit than they get, and both rise to any challenge. This event shows the world how special the town of Lyttelton is and how talented our New Zealand downhill riders are".
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- Street Football
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Street Football'. The project description reads, "This is a street football arena in the heart of Christchurch. The walls were constructed using timber from the residential red zone, and painted using a variety of test pots from Resene. Players can borrow a football from the Economy Golf next door and enjoy a kick around on the pitch!".
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- The Arcades Project
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'The Arcades Project'. The project description reads, "The Arcade Project is a modular, portable structure designed for Life in Vacant Spaces to define vacant sites in inner city Christchurch for creative and community use, especially for markets. It can take different configurations depending on the site and other requirements. In its first iteration on the former Crowne Plaza site on the corner of Durham and Kilmore Streets, it will also act as an urban design element, forming a pedestrian walkway between Victoria Street and Victoria Square".
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- Wonky Peterborough
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Wonky Peterborough'. The project description reads, "A written word stencil about the state of the street, perfectly placed on a footpath, viewed as one stumbles over the uneven terrain".
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- SCAPE
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'SCAPE'. The project description reads, "The Trust's vision for SCAPE is for Christchurch people to be excited, engaged and stimulated by contemporary public art that is well regarded and known by the national and international art world. Held in Christchurch's central city public spaces and supported though a range of partnerships, SCAPE has established a reputation for showcasing leading international contemporary artists and providing a springboard for new local talent".
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- Red Zone
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Red Zone'. The project description reads, "The Christchurch CBD Red Zone was established within hours of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Armed soldiers patrolled the perimeter fence, excluding the majority of business owners and residents, while USAR and Emergency teams searched for survivors. The Red Zone slowly reduced over the next year as engineers and demolitions teams removed and made safe buildings".
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- Out of the Box
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Out of the Box'. The project description reads, "Out of the Box is a contemporary and vintage furniture shop. Located on Sumner's main commercial street, the shop is built out of two long shipping containers. The limited width of the space inside the containers makes it an unusual space for a showroom: visitors wanting to explore the exhibition have to follow a winding path between the furniture pieces, including some items hanging from the roof".
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- Victoria Green
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Victoria Green'. The project description reads, "Turf lawn with timber edges; adjacent soil sown with wildflowers with a beautiful succession of blooms from April to the following spring; paths surfaced with Aggrok (including recycled bricks); steel gabion baskets filled with broken bricks made low walls/informal seats; kowhai trees in steel planters loaned by CCC, underplanted with small perennials; site sign to credit helpers".
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- CPIT Design/Build
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'CPIT Design/Build'. The project description reads:
Two week-long projects designed and implemented by CPIT students:
- Words of Hope - a cityscape of office furniture painted white, with spraycans on offer and people invited to 'tag' at will;
- Gap Filler bowling - ten pin bowling of sorts using coconuts and bottles on sod.
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- Rebuild Central
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Rebuild Central'. The project description reads, "Convert a former retail store into a new Council front office to deal with all Central City, Sydenham and Lyttelton rebuild enquires and be a one-stop shop for all Council regulatory functions within these areas. The office houses senior council staff including Planners, Urban Designers, Building Consent Officers, Rebuild Case Managers and Landscape Architects who handle all customer interactions and also lead CCC Central City Transitional and Recovery Plan projects".
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- The RDUnit - Mobile Broadcasting Facility
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'The RDUnit - Mobile Broadcasting Facility'. The project description reads, "Fully operational Mobile Radio broadcasting studio from a transformed horse float - able to broadcast live-to-air from anywhere in the Canterbury region. Catering to 22 specialist shows and over 100 hosts each week on full frequency broadcasting RDU 98.5FM. The RDUnit was needed because we lost our studios and offices in the February 2011 earthquake and we had to get something up and running very quickly. The idea of a mobile studio was the perfect way to embrace live performance, transitional workspaces, public engagement and broadcasting all in one package".
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- Gap Filler Fun Fair
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Gap Filler Fun Fair'. The project description reads, "An old-fashioned fun fair! Big market, unique carnival games, live music, bouncy castle, goofy races, Devonshire tea, BBQ".
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- Dino-Sauna
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Dino-Sauna'. The project description reads, "A relocatable sauna modelled on a Native American sweat lodge for 15 people to use at once - a social experiment and antidote to the cold".
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- The Village Grape Sumner Container Bar
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'The Village Grape Sumner Container Bar'. The project description reads, "A demolished wine shop has been replaced by two containers, a verandah and a nice little courtyard".
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- I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour'. The project description reads:
'I seem to have temporarily misplaced by sense of humour...' is by New Zealand artist Wayne Youle and is a collaboration between Gap Filler and The Christchurch Art Gallery.
The giant artwork took shape over a few weeks in December, 2011 with scissor lifts, hundreds of litres of paint, stencils galore, technicians and more working whenever the weather was good! The mural is 37m long and according to Art News (Summer) quite possibly New Zealand's largest painting.
Inspired by memories of his grandfather's workshop, Wayne has designed a huge shadowboard like those found in sheds and garages everywhere. Alongside hammers and other tools, Wayne's board contains some familiar but unexpected things - like houses, toys and wedding rings. Wayne says: 'This mural is for all those who lent their tools and their hands to all who needed help. Also to all those that lost something in the quakes, no matter what that something may have been. Don't lose your sense of humour and ability to smile.'
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- Lyttelton Petanque Club
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Lyttelton Petanque Club'. The project description reads, "Lyttelton people came together to design and build a community space featuring a petanque pitch, furniture and a garden on a vacant corner site on the main street. It was built over two weekends and is maintained by local people".