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UCSA Memories
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Now that the old University of Canterbury Students’ Association (UCSA) building has been demolished, all that is left for thousands of alumni are their memories of student life at UC.
To celebrate decades gone by, the UC Foundation invites alumni to share their memories so they can be preserved. As the UCSA prepares to build a new home, this reflection will help them to focus on creating a space that will make memories for generations of students to come. If you have memories you would like to share please email alumni@canterbury.ac.nz
- Contains 196 items in 9 collections
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Understanding Place
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The Understanding Place project gathers and shares resident and manawhenua stories about the residential red zone in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand on a mapping platform, with analytical tools to help people explore each other’s material. The platform is available via the Red Zone Stories app and website. The project allows people in the city to record their thoughts about places in a 600-hectare area that was cleared of houses after the 2011 Canterbury earthquake. At the same time it provides urban planners with a lens through which to view the land – as residents see it.
- Contains 38 items in 2 collections
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United States of America Embassy New Zealand
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The United States of America Embassy New Zealand (US Embassy) in Wellington, along with the Consulate General in Auckland, provides assistance to American citizens in New Zealand.
After the 22 February 2011 earthquake, the US Embassy responded with two goals in mind: to locate and assist American citizens in distress, and to mobilize US Government resources to assist local authorities in preserving life and addressing urgent humanitarian needs.
This collection holds photographs, videos, press releases, and blog posts about the US Embassy's involvement in the Canterbury earthquakes, and the achievement of these two goals.
- Contains 109 items in 3 collections
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University of Canterbury Emergency Operations Centre
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The Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is the centre where emergency events are responded to at the University of Canterbury. The main group working out of the EOC is the Incident Management Team. This team is a group of people from various parts of the University community who are pulled together to respond to events as and when they happen. Further groups working from this space include the Strategic Emergency Management Group and the Strategic Communications team.
This collection holds material relating to the earthquake events of 2010 – 2011 in Canterbury and the effects and responses to these on campus.
- Contains 58 items in 3 collections
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University of Canterbury Photographic Services
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Photographic Services provides the University community with an in-house source of high quality images for print and web. They cover news and events, produce marketing and promotional material, provide image-based academic support, and work with the Library on archival and duplication tasks.
This collection holds photos taken by the University of Canterbury's Photographic Services following the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. They show the impact of the earthquakes on the University, including: student involvement in the recovery process; the rebuild of campus; and earthquake-related research.
- Contains 2,118 items in 3 collections
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Wellington Emergency Management Office
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The Wellington Emergency Management Office (WEMO) was formed in 2012. It is a semi-autonomous organisation that co-ordinates Civil Defence and Emergency Management services on behalf of the nine councils in the Wellington region. It is responsible for two key aspects of emergency management: community resilience, and operational readiness.
In the aftermath of the 22 February 2011 earthquake, a number of volunteers from WEMO travelled to Christchurch in order to help with the emergency response. This collection holds photographs taken by the WEMO volunteers and Urban Search and Rescue team while they were in Christchurch.
- Contains 1,510 items in 2 collections
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Whole House Reuse Project
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Whole House Reuse is a project facilitated by Rekindle and supported by SIFT. It was created to make explicit the scale and breadth of materials of one modest home in order to deliver a broader understanding of the waste occurring as a result of demolition in Christchurch and throughout the country, and to provoke problem solving and innovation around future uses for materials currently being treated as waste.
Over seven days in August and September 2013 a professional salvage crew from Silvan Salvage led by Graham Thompson fully deconstructed a single-storey red-zoned home at 19 Admirals Way situated in the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton. Along with a team of volunteers, the entire material of the home, aside from the concrete ring foundation, was dismantled by hand and transported into storage. From there, 480 materials listings have been recorded in the Catalogue of Resources that Whole House Reuse is now presenting to the creative community of New Zealand during its Design stage.
This amazing record of the material of one home is contained within a book, 'Whole House Reuse: Deconstruction', that was released at the launch of the Design stage (30 January 2014). This publication also tells the story of the project so far, with photographic and written documentation of the salvage of 19 Admirals Way, a conversation with the homeowners, and a research paper on deconstruction in New Zealand.
This collection holds the 'Whole House Reuse: Deconstruction' catalogue as well as the photographs of each individual item salvaged from the house. Photographs of the artwork and designs created by the Whole House Reuse material will also be added to the collection at a later stage.
- Contains 483 items in 1 collection