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FESTA
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The Festival of Transitional Architecture is a free, biennial public event that engages with the city of Christchurch by exploring urban regeneration through large scale collaborative projects and urban interventions. It is the first and only festival of its kind in the world.
Over the course of Labour Weekend, events, performances and projects happen across empty sites and in vacant buildings within the city’s four avenues, reintroducing life and urban activity to the centre. This rediscovery of the inner city invites a variety of collective investigations into the nature of civic life and opens it up to the community’s desire to participate in the remaking of their city.
This collection holds photographs, videos and site documentation of the first three FESTA events (2012 - 2014).
- Contains 1,689 items in 3 collections
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Fairfax Media Collection
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Fairfax Media is the largest integrated metropolitan, rural and regional, magazine and digital media company in New Zealand. Its print and digital publications touch New Zealanders the length and breadth of the country every day.
The Fairfax Media collections aim to preserve and make available earthquake-related material gathered by their team.
Fairfax Media and UC CEISMIC are working in partnership to add to these collections and record the ongoing recovery and rebuild of Christchurch.
- Contains 8,554 items in 5 collections
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Focus360: Red-Zone Virtual Tour
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Focus 360's Red-Zone project aimed to visually document the demolition and rebuild of the Christchurch CBD using virtual tours - interactive 360-degree panoramic photographs. The project later expanded to include virtual tours from the wider Canterbury region.
This collection contains the virtual tours produced from this project. Each item in the collection includes a source link to the Focus360 website, where the virtual tour may be viewed online, and a zip file that may be downloaded. For further details, see http://focus360.co.nz.
- Contains 184 items in 67 collections
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Gap Filler
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Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative started in response to the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and revised and expanded in light of the more destructive 22 February 2011 earthquake. It is now administered by the Gap Filler Charitable Trust. Gap Filler aims to temporarily activate vacant sites within Christchurch with creative projects for community benefit, to make for a more interesting, dynamic and vibrant city.
This collection is organised by projects and hold images and videos of each Gap Filler project, as well as planning, licensing, and consent documents. To the best of our knowledge, all this material was created by Gap Filler staff. If you have any comments or concerns, please contact Gap Filler at fillthegap@gapfiller.co.nz
- Contains 3,585 items in 57 collections
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HIT Lab NZ CityViewAR
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This collection was put together by the UC CEISMIC programme office, and includes visual and written histories of buildings in the Christchurch city centre. The material collected was used by HIT Lab NZ for their web and mobile application, CityViewAR. HIT Lab NZ, or Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand, integrates research and education, providing students with a project-based learning environment.
CityViewAR is a HIT Lab NZ project, and allows users to see virtual buildings overlaid on the real world in an augmented reality web application. It can be used to visualise reconstructed buildings, and show other related information and images on site. The images and research in this collection were gathered from a variety of sources, include the NZ Historic Places Trust, the Christchurch City Council and the National Library of New Zealand. The aim of the collection is to expand coverage of the Christchurch inner city and significant heritage buildings.
- Contains 132 items in 31 collections
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Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
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Heritage New Zealand is a Crown entity, New Zealand’s leading national historic heritage agency and guardian of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national heritage. Heritage New Zealand's work includes identifying our heritage places, seeking to ensure they survive for appreciation by current and future generations, and fostering that appreciation by recording and sharing their stories.
The distinctive characteristics of New Zealand’s land and buildings are important to the way we shape our communities socially, economically, aesthetically and culturally. Conservation of this heritage enables New Zealanders to develop a greater understanding of their history and identity. Part of this heritage is lost forever each time an historic place is irrevocably changed. Heritage New Zealand's goal is to minimise unnecessary losses and damage by ensuring that the value of our heritage is acknowledged before irreversible damage is done.
The Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Earthquake Collection seeks to share stories of Canterbury’s historic heritage and Heritage New Zealand's earthquake recovery effort with researchers and the general public. The aim of this collection is to document the loss and damage to our local heritage during the 2010/2011 Canterbury Earthquakes, while also recording and remembering the built heritage of Canterbury prior to these events.
- Contains 3,330 items in 5 collections
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IHC New Zealand
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IHC New Zealand works in the community, providing services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families. They advocate for the rights, inclusion and welfare of all people with intellectual disabilities and support them to live satisfying lives in the community.
- Contains 23 items in 2 collections
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NZ Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi
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The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi (CTU) is New Zealand's national centre of trade unions, and the largest democratic organisation in New Zealand.
With over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions, CTU is the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
This collection holds material from the CTU related to the Canterbury earthquakes, including advice for workers, news items, answers to frequently asked questions, and bulletins, published on their website following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
- Contains 20 items in 2 collections
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National Council of Women of New Zealand, Christchurch Branch
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The National Council of Women of New Zealand is an umbrella organization working towards gender equality in Aotearoa New Zealand. Established in 1896, it has branches throughout the country, 200 affiliated Nationally Organised Member organisations, as well individual members. Since 1896 it has worked to lead and support many initiatives that have benefited all New Zealanders and their communities. NCWNZ partnered with Research NZ to undertake a comprehensive survey of gender attitudes in New Zealand in 2017 and 2019. The NCWNZ Gender Dashboard collects, collates and analyses data to build a shared understanding of the status of all women Aotearoa New Zealand. https://www.ncwnz.org.nz
NCWNZ objectives include researching the needs of women and the family and collecting and distributing information of service to the community. This website provides information about research conducted by the NCWNZ Christchurch Branch directed at these goals. It includes an archive relating to research into women's experiences of the Canterbury earthquake sequence as well as research into young women's experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Contains 204 items in 2 collections
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New Zealand Defence Force
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is charged with the defence of the nation, the security of its interests, and the protection of its fundamental values and institutions. It is spread across camps and bases through New Zealand, with its national strategic headquarters in Wellington and the operational joint headquarters in Trentham, Upper Hutt.
During the Canterbury earthquakes, the NZDF held an important role in the emergency response and recovery effort. Members of the New Zealand Army, Navy and Air Force travelled to Christchurch where they rescued people, delivered supplies, fed and gave shelter to those in need, fixed infrastructure, guarded cordons, provided transport, evaluated health risks, and provided first aid.
This collection holds photographs, videos, and articles, showcasing the NZDF's experiences during the Canterbury earthquakes.
- Contains 867 items in 3 collections