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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- Upon the Upland Road
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Upon the Upland Road'. The project description reads, "The last three lines of James K Baxter's poem 'High Country Weather' written using the nautical flag alphabet. Installed on National Poetry Day, 22 July 2011".
- Contains 3 items
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- Victoria Green
- 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".
- Contains 1 item
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- View From the Studio
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'View From the Studio'. The project description reads, "When the public debates were heated over the future of the severely damaged Christchurch Cathedral, I installed this work in the Re:START mall precinct as my personal statement that I believe the damage to the building is an important historical document of the earthquake, and should be retained as a memorial for future generations. This was a typical view from my studio in the Government Life Building in Cathedral Square; a precious memory of pre-earthquake Christchurch for me".
- Contains 6 items
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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.
- Contains 4 items
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- We Love Pop Up
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'We Love Pop Up'. The project description reads, "While efforts are being made to plan for long term recovery, attention must be paid to transitional and temporary: just now, it's all we've got. Injecting life, buzz, energy, happenings into a creative, community quarter celebrates what this village does best".
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- Why is This Real Not That?
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Why is This Real Not That?'. The project description reads, "A placard with a cryptic message outside the Theatre Royal".
- Contains 2 items
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- WikiHouse Prototype
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'WikiHouse Prototype'. The project description reads, "An open hardware project in which a global network of experts work alongside people in local communities to help design 3D models for buildings, which can then be downloaded and manufactured locally. The resulting construction kit sets enable ordinary people with minimal formal skills, training or tools to assemble affordable high performance buildings that are strong, safe and healthy; versatile and sustainable. Structures designed to last for generations but which can be assembled, modified, repaired or relocated in days".
- Contains 1 item
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- Wonky Peterborough
- 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".
- Contains 2 items