Caption reads: "Bexley was a hidden gem. A diamond in the rough. It was a paradise, a place where you could hear the sea and smell the salt."
Caption reads: "We were meant to live here all our lives, our working life, our retirement. That’s no longer possible."
Caption reads: "We wanted a home where we could retire and live the rest of our lives."
High School students cleaning up a site on Gloucester Street. This is where the Re-Entry concert is going to be held.
High School students cleaning up a site on Gloucester Street. This is where the Re-Entry concert is going to be held.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Andrew's College (centre) and Papanui Road (lower)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Andrew's College (centre) and Papanui Road (lower)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The south-west corner of Lichfield and Manchester Streets with the site of Reuben Blades Hairdressing School".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Some of the course participants in the 'Documenting Christchurch in Photographs' workshop in the Upper Riccarton Community and School Library Learning Centre".
A photograph taken from the top of the BNZ building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti School, on the corner of High and Cashel Streets".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St Andrews College".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cliff collapse at Redcliffs".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Container shopping in Worcester Boulevard".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "580 Ferry Road. Many demolition sites have been planted with wildflowers by local schools. This is one of the more exuberant".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "580 Ferry Road. Many demolition sites have been planted with wildflowers by local schools. This is one of the more exuberant".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "580 Ferry Road. Many demolition sites have been planted with wildflowers by local schools. This is one of the more exuberant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "115 Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Crossing on the south-east corner of Cashel and Colombo Streets (formally Beath's department store)".
A dinosaur seat on the corner of London and Oxford Streets, amongst flowers sown and tendered by children from Lyttelton Main School. In the background, the broken Plunkett Building can be seen.
A carving in the Lyttelton Coffee Co, a boutique coffee roastery and cafe which was located in the converted historic butchery on London Street. The carving was made by the Whakaraupo Carving School
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Temporary cafe in Worcester Boulevard".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Crossing viewed form the Ibis Hotel".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "152-166 Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, " remains of the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Cashel Street".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Worcester Street from Cathedral Square to Manchester Street, with Gloucester Street at the bottom".
The September and February earthquakes were terrifying and devastating. In February, 185 people were killed (this number excludes post earthquake related deaths) and several thousand injured. Damage to infrastructure above and below ground in and around Christchurch was widespread and it will take many years and billions of dollars to rebuild. The ongoing effects of the big quakes and aftershocks are numerous, with the deepest impact being on those who lost family and friends, their livelihoods and homes. What did Cantabrians do during the days, weeks and months of uncertainty and how have we responded? Many grieved, some left, some stayed, some arrived, many shovelled (liquefaction left thousands of tons of silt to be removed from homes and streets), and some used their expertise or knowledge to help in the recovery. This book highlights just some of the projects staff and students from The Faculty of Environment, Society and Design have been involved in from September 2010 to October 2012. The work is ongoing and the plan is to publish another book to document progress and new projects.
In 2010 and 2011, Aotearoa New Zealand was hit by a number of major disasters involving loss of human life and severe disruption to social, ecological and economic wellbeing. The Pike River mine explosions were closely followed by a sequence of major earthquakes in Christchurch, seismic events that have permanently altered the lives of thousands of people in our third largest city, the closure of the central business district and the effective abandonment of whole residential areas. In early October 2011, the ship, Rena, grounded on a reef off the port of Tauranga and threatened a major oil spill throughout the Bay of Plenty, where local communities with spiritual and cultural connections to the land depend on sea food as well as thrive on tourism. The Council for Social Work Education Aotearoa New Zealand (CSWEANZ), representing all the Schools of Social Work in New Zealand, held a ‘Disaster Curriculum’ day in November 2011, at which social workers and Civil Defence leaders involved in the Christchurch earthquakes, the Rena Disaster, Fiji floods and the Boxing Day tsunami presented their narrative experience of disaster response and recovery. Workshops discussed and identified core elements that participants considered vital to a social work curriculum that would enable social work graduates in a range of community and cultural settings to respond in safe, creative and informed ways. We present our core ideas for a social work disaster curriculum and consider a wide range of educational content based on existing knowledge bases and new content within a disaster framework. http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/