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Videos, UC QuakeStudies

A video clip depicting a large, inflatable white ball being rolled through the intersection of High Street, Lichfield Street and Manchester Street. The ball was part of an installation for CityUps - a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.

Videos, UC QuakeStudies

A video clip depicting a large, inflatable white ball being rolled through the intersection of High Street, Lichfield Street and Manchester Street. The ball was part of an installation for CityUps - a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of visitors to CityUps playing with a large inflatable ball. The ball is part of an installation titled CHCH2061, created by architecture students from the University of Auckland. CityUps was a 'city of the future for one night only', and the main event of FESTA 2014.

Audio, Radio New Zealand

For six weeks after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake millions of litres of raw sewage - along with lots of liquefaction - poured into the Avon and Heathcote Rivers. A team of biologists quickly got to work to measure the impact of this catastrophe on life in the Heathcote River and as they tell Alison Ballance, they were surprised by what they recorded over the next few months.

Audio, Radio New Zealand

For many years the Heathcote-Avon estuary was the dumping ground for Christchurch's sewage. Then, in 2010, the wastewater was diverted well out to sea, via a long pipe. David Schiel from the University of Canterbury and John Zeldis from NIWA were investigating the effects of this diversion on the health of estuary when the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes happened, re-engineering both the estuary and their experiments.

Articles, Christchurch uncovered

The pen is mightier than the sword – and before the days of ball-points, one needed ink bottles to fire up their weapon of choice – that being the quill, the dip pen or the fountain pen. Ink bottles are … Continue reading →