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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- Coffee Zone Mini Park
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Coffee Zone Mini Park'. The project description reads, "A brightly coloured urban garden, initially with planters and re-used brick gabion seats (now wood-topped) sitting on concrete, colours deliberately matching the Lego colours used in Coffee Zone kiosk (itself a wonder of recycling). New site has planting beds, pallet pathways, pallet gazebo, petanque terrain, wildflowers".
- Contains 10 items
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- Colombo Street Temporary Streetscape
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Colombo Street Temporary Streetscape'. The project description reads, "By reducing the road carriageway with temporary raised build outs, the intention was to help modify driver behaviour by signalling to drivers a slower speed environment. Colourful planters placed on the build outs provide the vertical element which also signals a narrower road space whilst providing colour and interest in an area where a significant number of buildings have been demolished".
- Contains 1 item
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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.
- Contains 2 items
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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.
- Contains 1 item
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- Concrete Propositions
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Concrete Propositions'. The project description reads, "On Saturday 10 November, Melbourne-based artist Ash Keating created Concrete Propositions, a huge, abstract painting on a central city wall revealed by demolition. Keating created the colourful work by firing paint from fire extinguishers onto the concrete wall".
- Contains 1 item
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- Container Art
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Container Art'. The project description reads, "The project aims to cover the containers that have been placed to protect the road from rockfall danger with art pieces from local artists. One hundred and sixty containers have currently been placed, so potentially the project could become a world class open-air art gallery. The project's aim is to mitigate the visually disrupting effect of the containers put in place for road protection from rockfalls after the February and June earthquakes with the realisation of an 'outdoor' art gallery".
- Contains 5 items
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- Container Love (Container Cosy)
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Container Love (Container Cosy)'. The project description reads, "Container Love is a community project that pretties up shipping containers that line the streets of earthquake-hit Sumner and are there to protect people from more rock fall. The idea is that the community turns the unpleasant look of the containers into a positive feature for people to enjoy. Knitters and crocheters from New Zealand and worldwide have contributed to this project".
- Contains 2 items
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- Crux
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Crux'. The project description reads, "Remembrance-Vision project: acknowledging what had been lost in the heart of the township and looking to the future. Made from demolition material rescued from the township".
- Contains 4 items
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- Cycle-Powered Cinema
- 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!".
- Contains 4 items
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- Dairy Garden
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Dairy Garden'. The project description reads, "A compact garden providing semi-mature maple trees in box planters surrounded by perennials, brick filled gabions brought from Victoria Green and modular seating made from painted pallets (these seats relocated to the Rotherham Street site, as are flaxes)".
- Contains 7 items
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- Dairy and Container Colombo Street
- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Dairy and Container Colombo Street'. The project description reads, "A dairy that lost its building in the 4 September 2010 quake re-opened in a converted shipping container".
- Contains 7 items
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- Dance-O-Mat
- 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".
- Contains 8 items