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- Frames
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Frames'. The project description reads, "Wooden picture frames on an old brick wall".
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- 185 Empty Chairs
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled '185 Empty Chairs'. The project description reads, "A temporary art installation reflecting on the loss of lives, livelihood and living in our city following the earthquake on 22 February 2011. One hundred and eighty five square metres of grass depicting new growth, regeneration. One hundred and eighty five white chairs, all painted twice by hand as an act of remembrance, each one different. This installation is temporary - as is life".
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- Inside Out Project With Central New Brighton School
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Inside Out Project With Central New Brighton School'. The project description reads:
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. The INSIDE OUT project is a creation of the artist JR, recipient of the 2011 TED Prize.
The Central New Brighton School was told it would be closed after the earthquake even though it had not suffered severe damage. The school was told that their pool would cost $70,000 to repair. The school raised $2000 and with this they fixed their pool. This group project was about a community 'just doing it'. The project requires the photographer to ask a particular question when taking photos. Our questions were 'How did you feel when you heard you school was closing?' and 'How did you feel when your pool was fixed?
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- Macbeth
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Macbeth'. The project description reads, "The CHCH Arts Festival commissioned Mike to develop a new version of Macbeth originally planned to be held in The Loons Theatre. When the June 2011 earthquake hit the decision was to keep the production in its home town and utilize the cleared sections of land that once housed The Volcano, Lava Bar, Coastal Living and Fisheries businesses. An outdoor theatre and apocalyptic Macbeth was born out of the rubble creating spacious and realistic performance".
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- Events Village
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Events Village'. The project description reads, "After extensive damage to many of the city's key event venues, the community asked for temporary venue and event spaces in Christchurch during the recovery. The Christchurch Events Village is made up of a number of hireable and private venues. The geo-domes have proven popular with the community, with more than 40 events held this year alone (January - September 2012) and an estimated 800,000 individual visits since opening".
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- Boxed Quarter
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Boxed Quarter'. The project description reads, "Mixed-use, transitional development creating urban density using a boxed building system. Designed for flexibility and extended time-frames".
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- Cycle-Powered Cinema
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Cycle-Powered Cinema'. The project description reads, "Cycle-powered cinema. Cycle-themed films. Cycle smoothies. All on a former cycle shop site. Boom!".
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- Four Corners Youth Space
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Four Corners Youth Space'. The project description reads, "An empty site has been used to accommodate a temporary youth space. The area of the site has been divided in 'Four Corners', each one with a specific function: food, fashion, sports and music. The two-hour launch event was hosted on TV2 programme 'The Erin Simpson Show': for the event, each corner hosted different kinds of activities, such as a martial arts demonstration, a dog fashion show, etc. Everything was filmed and then broadcasted on 15 June".
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- Sumner Skate Park
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Sumner Skate Park'. The project description reads, "A skate ramp has filled the empty site of the Sumner Community Hall. For over 20 years local kids have tried to get a spot to use their boards, but had no success; in this project the earthquake tragedy has been turned into a positive by giving kids a safe park, away from roads and sheltered from the winds".
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- River of Flowers - Te Waitohi Maumahara
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'River of Flowers - Te Waitohi Maumahara'. The project description reads:
From 8am to 8pm on 22 February 2012, people brought flowers to drop in the river and wrote messages for a Tree of Hope.
From 12.30 to 1.30pm, local community groups hosted the sites. At 12:51 two minutes' silence was held, followed by the release of red, helium-filled biodegradable balloons. The River of Flowers was an opportunity to come together as a city through a river of flowers; let go through dropping flowers into the river; hold two minutes of silence to remember those who have died, been injured, or who have lost their homes; and to write notes of hope and post them on a tree of hope. It was also an opportunity to acknowledge the importance of the river(s) in the life and heritage of the city; give a token of respect back to the river(s); show the connections between communities - particularly those most affected - and to celebrate our strength, our resilience and our support for one another.
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- Tati/Playtime
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Tati/Playtime'. The project description reads, "A design competition was run by Gap Filler and the winners were asked to construct a temporary cinema to show films by French director Jacques Tati over 2 weeks. The final design was based on the night club scene from the film Playtime and featured an actor opening an invisible door to a cinema constructed of reinforcing bar and pallet seats, and a painted red carpet".
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- Volstead Trading Company
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Volstead Trading Company'. The project description reads:
The Volstead Trading Company is a concept devised by a few Christchurch locals to create an environment for social interaction that contradicts the traditional bar scene. With a focus on exclusivity, subtlety and a relaxed atmosphere, The Volstead Trading Co. is bringing back the glory days of the 1920's speakeasy, a bar for those in the know, away from the common scene.
The bar is ironically named after Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the United States of America, who pushed through the 'National Prohibition Act' banning the sale, supply and consumption of alcohol nationwide on 28 October 1919.
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- Dance-O-Mat
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Dance-O-Mat'. The project description reads, "A dance floor on a vacant site with coin-operated lighting and sound courtesy of an adapted laundromat washing machine that one can plug their phone/mp3 player into".
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- Light Inspiration for Lyttelton
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Light Inspiration for Lyttelton'. The project description reads, "The concept of the project was to help give hope and support to the Lyttelton community after the Christchurch earthquakes, while creating an eye-catching installation that could easily be appreciated at night as well".
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- Government Life Suspension
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Government Life Suspension'. The project description reads, "A large-scale digital print installation on the old Chancery Arcade building which sits in the foreground of the Government Life building. The artwork mirrors the building that once housed the artist's old studio. The idea of suspension and reflection is an attempt to hold up and enjoy a significant Christchurch building before it is also destroyed".
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- Ministry of Justice Gate Keepers
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Ministry of Justice Gate Keepers'. The project description reads, "A gate-keeper's house for the Ministry of Justice, this diminutive hut serves as a shelter for the person guarding and checking the specific MoJ parking area. The neighbouring Tower building provides offices and courtrooms for the Ministry of Justice and has been back in action since 15 December 2011. The section of Chester Street between Durham Street and Victoria Square is reserved as parking for MoJ staff only and this timber hut with colonial pretentions (finial, small verandah, pitched roof) is occupied by the parking gate keeper during working hours".
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- Smash Palace
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Smash Palace'. The project description reads, "A temporary bar on a gap site featuring an ex-Red Bus converted into a bar. There is range of seating, fires in drums, fairy lights and more. Also an odd assortment of various caravans. A bit of a hipster hang out - very cool but chilly in the winter! The owner/operator had a much loved bar, Goodbye Blue Monday, in the Poplar Lane area until the quakes destroyed it. Smash Palace was one of the first temporary bars to open within the CBD. The whole venue has a 'temporary' look: the bar is an old bus, the kitchen is a caravan and the street frontage is realised with scaffoldings".
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- Re:Entry
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Re:Entry'. The project description reads, "An event on a gap organised by young people with the support of Gap Filler. The event featured live music and films featuring young people. There were food vans and live VJing as well. Around 120 young people came along".
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- Magna Carta Christchurch: The Great Paper Model
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Magna Carta Christchurch: The Great Paper Model'. The project description reads, "Magna Carta Christchurch was a public workshop, open to everyone for free, that produced a co-created imaginative interpretation of the city in paper, chipboard and cardboard. Facilitated by Californian artist Kiel Johnson with a team of 20 architectural design students and graduate architects, hundreds of people of all ages contributed to the final result: a version of Christchurch that replete with stadia, rail infrastructure, treehouses, trebuchets, swings, dinosaurs, castles, even a Where's Wally!".
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- Temporary City Libraries
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Temporary City Libraries'. The project description reads:
The temporary libraries have helped to restore a sense of normality for many Christchurch people following the devastation of the February 2011 earthquake.
Two temporary libraries in the Central City are welcoming customers while the Central Library in Gloucester Street remains closed. Christchurch City Libraries staff converted an electrical wholesaler on Tuam Street next to the bus exchange and the former VBase offices and a neighbouring empty bathroom store in Peterborough Street into state-of-the-art temporary Central Libraries.