A photograph of a temporary installation titled Highlight under construction in the Re:START mall car park on Cashel Street. The installation was created by students from Unitec Architecture Department for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a temporary installation titled Highlight under construction in the Re:START mall car park on Cashel Street. The installation was created by students from Unitec Architecture Department for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a temporary installation titled Highlight under construction in the Re:START mall car park on Cashel Street. The installation was created by students from Unitec Architecture Department for Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession which was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a model WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of members of Space Craft, the social enterprise behind WikiHouse. From left are Jane Webb, Danny Squires and Clayton Prest. A demonstration and hands-on building workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was held at CPIT as part of FESTA 2013.
A close-up photograph of a 3D-printed WikiHouse stamp, made for FESTA 2013. As part of FESTA, a demonstration and hands-on building workshop titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space was held at CPIT.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a model WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a model of a WikiHouse building on display in the CPSA building at CPIT. A demonstration and hands-on building workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was held at CPIT as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of Clayton Prest from WikiHouse, taken during a demonstration and hands-on workshop. The workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of modular, wooden WikiHouse pieces, ready to be assembled during a demonstration and hands-on building workshop. The workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was held at CPIT as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of people laying out modular, wooden WikiHouse pieces in the CPSA building at CPIT, to be assembled during a demonstration and hands-on building workshop. The workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of the base pieces of a WikiHouse building in the CPSA building at CPIT. A demonstration and hands-on building workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was held at CPIT as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a WikiHouse building being assembled in the CPSA building at CPIT. The demonstration and hands-on workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was part of FESTA 2013.
At 4.35 a.m. on the 4th of September 2010 Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, the largest earthquake to hit urban New Zealand for nearly 80 years. It was a large earthquake. On average the world only has 17 earthquakes a year larger than magnitude seven. Haiti’s earthquake in January 2010 was magnitude 7.1 and Chile’s earthquake in February was magnitude 8.8. Although it was a big quake, Christchurch was lucky. In Haiti’s earthquake over 230,000 people were killed and in Chile 40,000 homes were destroyed. Happily this was not the situation in Christchurch, however the earthquake has caused considerable damage. The challenge for the Landscape Architecture community is to contribute to the city’s reconstruction in ways that will not only fix the problems of housing, and the city’s urban, suburban and neighbourhood fabric but that will do so in ways that will help solve the landscape problems that dogged the city before the earthquake struck.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 22 March 2012 entitled, "Lamenting the Loss".
A story submitted by Elizabeth to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Candy Green to the QuakeStories website.