Transitional City
Text and images from the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The book documents projects created in response to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
Last updated
10:50pm 6th November 2017
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Collection
Identifier
qsr-collection:777
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- Boxed Quarter
- 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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- Breaking Wonderful
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Breaking Wonderful'. The project description reads:
Constructed by a group of 16-19 year old teenagers in Christchurch, Breaking Wonderful is a piece of theatre made as reaction to the earthquake using the theme of re-birth as a spring board rather than earthquake-focused content. It is a blend of gritty realism and dream like surrealism.We are interested in investigating the arc of rebirth: what happens before, during and after a disaster. It follows three parallel stories on different points of the arc of rebirth. A story of a girl who loses her father, friends and her confidence in the way the world is run, then learns to build everything back from scratch. A boy who is stuck inside his own dreams of a better world and a group of free and joyful young people without questions and without fear who represent the golden age. These lines are pulled together by the greed of authority embodied in the fast talking King in business wear.
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- Brighton Up!
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Brighton Up!'. The project description reads, "A creative project built by the community after a 'dreaming' session was held. We imagined a beautiful, playful space, where children could play, with murals by local artists".
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- Bus Exchange Boundary Seats
- 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".
- Contains 4 items
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- Buskers Festival Relocation Around the Events Village
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Buskers Festival Relocation Around the Events Village'. The project description reads, "The worlds favourite street theatre festival takes place every January in Christchurch. It has been running for 20 years and attracts over 300,000 people every year. With over 550 shows and 65 international performers, it is the most accessible festival in the world; you only pay what you think the show is worth".
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- Butterfly Gap
- 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".
- Contains 9 items
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- CCC Temporary Street Furniture
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'CCC Temporary Street Furniture'. The project description reads, "As the central city opens up, Christchurch City Council aim to inhabit otherwise reasonably dire streetscapes with colourful and engaging temporary street furniture. The suite has movable planters, seating and bollards, which clearly show their temporary nature, are cheaper than permanent equivalents and are largely manufactured of recycled materials".
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- CCDU 100 Day Plan
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'CCDU 100 Day Plan'. The project description reads, "The Christchurch Central Recovery Plan (CCRP) outlines the future development of central Christchurch. It incorporates a spatial Blueprint Plan developed by a professional consortium working with the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's Christchurch Central Development Unit (CCDU) over a 100 day period".
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- CERA
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'CERA'. The project description reads, "The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) is the agency leading and coordinating the ongoing recovery effort following the devastating earthquakes of September 2010 and February 2011".
- Contains 1 item
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- COCA Windows Project
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'COCA Windows Project'. The project description reads, "The space immediately behind the street window became the only exploitable public space within the building. The three new and innovative projects by local artists were only visible from the outside of the building; however, unlike COCA's regular visiting hours, these could be seen at any time during the day or night over the months of April, July and October".
- Contains 3 items
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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.
- Contains 4 items
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- Canterbury Quakes
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Canterbury Quakes'. The project description reads, "The aims of this exhibition were to construct a temporary exhibition to tell the natural and human history stories of the Canterbury earthquakes and their aftershocks. Our guiding principles were to instill a strong sense of Canterbury pride and hope for the future balanced with a sense of respect and sympathy for these devastating events. The exhibition opened on the first anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake and presented a balanced view of events and messages".
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