Transitional City | UC QuakeStudies

: Ko Taku Kupu, Ko Tau/My Word is Yours; Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Ko Taku Kupu, Ko Tau/My Word is Yours'. The project description reads, "A creative bicultural collaboration that aimed to bring contemporary te reo and creative typography to The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival 2012, as well as increase participation by a younger audience".; Contains 1 item

: LUXCITY; Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'LUXCITY'. The project description reads:
LUXCITY, the opening event for the Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA), was a city made from light for one night. Over 350 architecture and design students from across New Zealand designed and constructed 16 installations that used light to create spaces for pop-up functions: bars, cafes, live music venues, an all-ages youth venue, a night market and a fashion installation. The whole of Christchurch was invited to return to the currently vacant city centre October 20th to enjoy and experience this unique urban atmosphere. Between 20-30,000 people turned up to the first major event in the central city since the February earthquake.The designs used light in conjunction with large-scale demolition machinery to create structures that were ephemeral and dealt with the vastness of the urban scale. LUXCITY addressed the potential of transitional projects to stimulate collaboration, explore a range of architectural possibilities, and regenerate the central city, and created excitement and hope for the city's burgeoning recovery.; Contains 28 items

: Life in Vacant Spaces HQ; Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Life in Vacant Spaces HQ'. The project description reads, "The building will serve as a headquarters for Life in Vacant Spaces (LiVS). LiVS is a charitable trust set up to connect people with project ideas to vacant spaces within the CBD, encouraging grass roots economic development and allowing Christchurch residents to take part in the re-imagining of their city. The building was built entirely by volunteers and will serve as a pop-up office space for LiVS staff and a networking hub for artists and entrepreneurs. Designed to be an off-grid, sub-consent space as a temporary HQ. It is moveable and flexible enough for alternate project-related uses".; Contains 7 items

: Light Inspiration for Lyttelton; 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".; Contains 1 item

: Lions Transitional Facility; Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Lions Transitional Facility'. The project description reads, "The project aims to build a temporary community facility to replace the badly damaged St Albans Community Centre. The building accommodates meeting space for 40 to 50 people, and features movable dividers that can split the space into two or three. It also has a kitchen and toilets and is designed to be fully accessible. The costs for this project have been covered by a join venture between The International Association of Lions Clubs and the Christchurch City Council".; Contains 3 items

: Lyttelton Petanque Club; 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".; Contains 6 items

: Lyttelton Urban Downhill; 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".; Contains 1 item

: Macbeth; 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".; Contains 1 item

: Magna Carta Christchurch: The Great Paper Model; 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!".; Contains 1 item

: Meet Me on the Other Side; Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Meet Me on the Other Side'. The project description reads, "'With its origins in objects salvaged from Julia Morisons earthquake- and liquefaction-damaged Peterborough Street studio, Meet me on the other side was first exhibited at Two Rooms Gallery in Auckland late 2011. They are the leftovers of distant, explicable lives; the cage that held the bird, the pitchfork that tossed the hay, the ironing board on which the clothes were pressed. Now, in this room, with its strange Red Zone outlook of scars and subtractions, they try on new identities. Clamped, trapped, netted and suspended, they are stacked up in provisional arrangements against the silt-thickened tide. The graceless sludge that once seeped through them, relentless in its material trespasses, has redefined and transformed them they are playthings, monsters, mischievous changelings. Nothings and somethings; odds and ends; endings and beginnings.' -Felicity Milburn".; Contains 1 item

: Ministry of Justice Gate Keepers; 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".; Contains 8 items

: Mural Madness; Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Mural Madness'. The project description reads, "During the month of November, as many walls as possible around Brighton will be painted with murals. Brighton's talented artistic community will be celebrated. Murals will appear everywhere, beautifying the area, giving Brighton a point of difference and making her a venue!".; Contains 1 item