A document providing an overview of the SCIRT Communication Team, including its purpose, objectives and decision-making processes.
A document that outlines objectives and ways of working collaboratively, which team members signed to show their commitment.
An advertisement from April 2016 informing residents that local businesses are still open, despite detours and roadworks.
A tool, in the form of a poster, given to workshop and toolbox participants and hung up at worksites and in offices, outlining five easy steps to minimise the impact of roadworks on businesses.
A plan which outlines how to manage the environmental impacts that result from SCIRT works. The first version of this plan was produced on 20 July 2011.
A document containing examples of items provided in a folder for businesses. These are taken to the initial face-to-face meeting with business owners to discuss the impact and disruption of upcoming SCIRT rebuild works.
A plan which outlines how projects will be estimated to generate project Target Out-turn Costs (TOCs), and how these link into the programme TOC. The first version of this plan was produced on 29 July 2011.
A runsheet created for the SCIRT and New Zealand Red Cross humaneers action learning group.
A run sheet which details who will do what at the opening of the Gloucester Street bridge.
A flowchart which illustrates where the G-File was used throughout the life cycle of asset data collection, processing and delivery.
A report which details the financial and societal value that the SCIRT Training Centre created.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Environment Canterbury Emergency Management Office".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Environment Canterbury Emergency Management Office".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 29 August 2014 entitled, "Day off".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Environment Canterbury Emergency Management Office".
A photograph of a sign advertising the SCIRT website on the banks of the Avon River.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Steel bracing being attached to 169 Hereford Street".
The demolition site of the ANZ Building. A digger sits behind a pile of rubble, and water fills the former basement. The former post office can be seen in the background.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "C1 Coffee's office in the second floor of the Alice in Videoland Building. Milk bottle crates have been used as legs for a desk.
Knox Church earthquake repair/rebuild on a walk around Christchurch December 11, 2013 New Zealand. www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-20... All about our ear...
A photograph of a protest sign reading, "Oxymorons of the week: Sisters of Mercy, EQC helpdesk, pay rise, rebuild strategy". The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Woodham Road, Linwood".
A photograph of a model city at the Rebuild Central office on Lichfield Street. The model was created by members of the public as part of the Christchurch City Council's Transitional City consultation project.
A photograph of a model city at the Rebuild Central office on Lichfield Street. The model was created by members of the public as part of the Christchurch City Council's Transitional City consultation project.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The City Council building looked rather spectacular on this late autumn day".
A photograph submitted by Ross Williamson to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Halberg Street house in flood photo, designated rebuild, under demolition, in green zone, other side of the street is red zone, go figure !".
Ronnie van Hout's 'Comin' Down' sculpture stands on the roof of the Alice in Videoland building on Tuam Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Detail of the windows in Alice in Videoland. The building was designed with permanence and strength in mind and the new owner intends the fit out to have the same feel of permanence. His aspiration is to build the best coffee house in the world and the largest in Christchurch".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Jeremy Stewart of Alice in Videoland holding 'When a City Falls', the film recently released about the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Jeremy Stewart standing in his lice in Videoland store which is just awaiting the cordon to be pushed back so that customers can come calling".
Imagined landscapes find their form in utopian dreaming. As ideal places, utopias are set up according to the ideals of their designers. Inevitably, utopias become compromised when they move from the imaginary into the actual. Opportunities to create utopias rely largely on a blank slate, a landscape unimpeded by the inconveniences of existing occupation – or even topography. Christchurch has seen two utopian moments. The first was at the time of European settlement in the mid-nineteenth century, when imported ideals provided a model for a new city. The earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 provided a second point at which utopian dreaming spurred visions for the city. Christchurch’s earthquakes have provided a unique opportunity for a city to re-imagine itself. Yet, as is the fate for all imaginary places, reality got in the way.