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 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.
One cast iron and perspex turret clock dial with two hands. Originally from the tower of the Christchurch railway station building on Moorehouse Avenue, which later became the science education centre Science Alive!
One cast iron and perspex turret clock dial with two hands. Originally from the tower of the Christchurch railway station building on Moorehouse Avenue, which later became the science education centre Science Alive!
A chimney on a house in Spreydon. The bricks at the top of the chimney flew off the house during the earthquake and into the neighbour's property. The remaining bricks are unstable, with cracks in between and will have to be removed by hand.
An empty section where a house once stood at 27 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The section has partly flooded and is overgrown with weeds and silt from liquefaction. An road cone sits to the left-hand side of the section.
A photograph of a hand-written cardboard sign reading 'The Beginning Is Nigh'. The sign is cable-tied to the fence next to a vacant site on Gloucester Street. The site is the location of Illusions, part of LUXCITY.
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 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.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "BDO Lumley House which is in the process of being demolished. Knox Church is visible on the right hand side of the photo".
A flooded driveway leading to 26 and 28 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The driveway is covered with weeds and silt from liquefaction. The mailbox is on a lean and on the right-hand side is an empty section where a house once stood.
After my visit at the hospital for physiotherapy on my hand I took a walk around the city on my way home. Demolition of the Victoria Square apartments February 12, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand. www.s...
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 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 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.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Avonside. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sullivan Park, Avonside. All of this is residential red zoned except for a tiny piece in the top right hand corner".
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 photograph of rubble from earthquake-damaged buildings along Colombo Street near the intersection with St Asaph Street. On the left-hand side of the street cars have been crushed by falling rubble. The road has been cordoned off with wire fencing.
A photograph of workers preparing breakfast for the emergency management personnel in Latimer Square. The workers are wearing high-visibility vests and hair nets. A sign on one of the tent poles reads, "Please wash hand before approaching the food tables, thank you".
A photograph of street art on the side of a house. The artwork shows plants, kowhai flowers, two tui, and their eggs. There is a stepladder on the right-hand side of the artwork and spray paint cans on the ground in front of it.
A photograph of a woman wearing overalls covered in paint. She is holding a spray-paint can in each of her hands. There is a painted wall depicting two tui behind her, with four more spray-paint cans on the ground in front of it.
A photograph of a woman with soil in her hands, before the opening of Agropolis, an urban farm on the corner of High Street and Tuam Street. Organic waste from inner-city hospitality businesses is composted and used to grow food. Agropolis was the venue for several events throughout FESTA 2013.
The September Canterbury earthquake. These pictures were taken of Colombo Street in Sydenham. A lot of masonry in this area has been damaged/fallen down. A second hand dealer store. This is next to Penny Lane which had to relocate down the street. Note: these photos were taken on a cellphone; mind the quality.
A photograph of women sewing felt badges outside the Christchurch City Library in Lyttelton. The felt hearts were a healing outlet during the Canterbury earthquakes. The goal was to create beauty in the midst of chaos, to keep people's hands busy and their minds off the terrifying reality of the earthquakes, as well as to give a gift of love to workers and businesses who helped improve life in Lyttelton.
A photograph of women sewing felt badges outside the Christchurch City Library in Lyttelton. The felt hearts were a healing outlet during the Canterbury earthquakes. The goal was to create beauty in the midst of chaos, to keep people's hands busy and their minds off the terrifying reality of the earthquakes, as well as to give a gift of love to workers and businesses who helped improve life in Lyttelton.
A photograph of signs on the windows of the Christchurch Art Gallery. The art gallery was used as the temporary Civil Defence headquarters after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The signs read, "Today is Thursday 3 March 2011" and "Wash your hands!". In the background, emergency management personnel and a New Zealand Fire Service truck can be seen.
A car stuck in a large pothole on River Road. The wheels on the right hand side of the car have fallen into the hole, leaving the car grounded against the road surface. The photographer comments, "This car belonged to a postal delivery worker - the NZ Post bike rack is mounted on the towbar. The owner must have biked home. Later a tow truck arrived to extract the car from the hole that had opened under its front wheel".
A photograph of the Townsend Telescope in the Observatory at the Christchurch Arts Centre. In the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph is a pulley for the telescope's clock drive. This is one of the pieces that went missing when the Observatory tower collapsed in the 22 February 2011 earthquake. This image was used by Graeme Kershaw, Technician at the University of Canterbury Department of Physics and Astronomy, to identify the telescope's parts after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.