Heart shaped fabric and a note that reads "Farewell Sweet Volcano" have been woven on the fence around site where the Volcano Cafe was located, on the corner of London and Canterbury Streets.
A photograph of an orange stickered house on Kilmore Street. The orange sticker indicates that the building can only be entered for short periods.
The A and T Burt building on Ferry Road in Woolston. Bricks that have collapsed from the top section of the building have been cleared from the footpath below.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Ross's photography assistant provides scale to the size of some diggers on Hereford Street that are being used in the CBD now".
The driveway of a house on Bracken Street in Avonside that has been warped by earthquakes. Dry deposits of liquefaction can be seen on the driveway.
An authority granted by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, providing the authority to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect archaeological sites within the Christchurch City area.
The driveway of a property on Avonside Drive. The slabs of concrete that make up the driveway have shifted and cracked, and weeds have grown up between them.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peter Majendie, in the middle of his installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The chairs are different so that you can find a chair to remind you in some way of the people who died. Peter told me about the important paintings of chairs, such as Van Gogh and Gaugin's paintings of chairs and the drawing of Dickens's Chair published above his obituary that influenced his decision to remember the lost lives with chairs".
This thesis is a creative and critical exploration of how transmedia storytelling meshes with political documentary’s nature of representing social realities and goals to educate and promote social change. I explore this notion through Obrero (“worker”), my independently produced transmedia and transjournalistic documentary project that explores the conditions and context of the Filipino rebuild workers who migrated to Christchurch, New Zealand after the earthquake in 2011. While the project should appeal to New Zealanders, it is specifically targeted at an audience from the Philippines. Obrero began as a film festival documentary that co-exists with strategically refashioned Web 2.0 variants, a social network documentary and an interactive documentary (i-doc). Using data derived from the production and circulation of Obrero, I interrogate how the documentary’s variants engage with differing audiences and assess the extent to which this engagement might be effective. This thesis argues that contemporary documentary needs to re-negotiate established film aesthetics and practices to adapt in the current period of shifting technologies and fragmented audiences. Documentary’s migration to new media platforms also creates a demand for filmmakers to work with a transmedia state of mind—that is, the capacity to practise the old canons of documentary making while comfortably adjusting to new media production praxis, ethics, and aesthetics. Then Obrero itself, as the creative component of this thesis, becomes an instance of research through creative practice. It does so in two respects: adding new knowledge about the context, politics, and experiences of the Filipino workers in New Zealand; and offering up a broader model for documentary engagement, which I analyse for its efficacy in the digital age
A photograph contributed by Jennifer, a participant in the Understanding Place research project. The photograph has the description "Apple tree". Please note that Jennifer's Red Zone Story was a test-pilot for the Understanding Place project.
A photograph contributed by Jennifer, a participant in the Understanding Place research project. The photograph has the description "Not edible!" Please note that Jennifer's Red Zone Story was a test-pilot for the Understanding Place project.
A photograph contributed by Jennifer, a participant in the Understanding Place research project. The photograph has the description "More mysterious mushrooms". Please note that Jennifer's Red Zone Story was a test-pilot for the Understanding Place project.
A photograph contributed by Jennifer, a participant in the Understanding Place research project. The photograph has the description "An edible mushroom!" Please note that Jennifer's Red Zone Story was a test-pilot for the Understanding Place project.
A PDF copy of a list of bars that confirmed themselves 'Proudly Pokie Free' in response to the campaign.
An empty house on Avonside Drive. The overgrown lawn indicates that the house has been unoccupied for some time as a result of the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Cross cracking on the Manchester Courts Building between the windows. This means that there was no vertical reinforcement in the building and it will have to come down.
A bicycle chained to a safety fence advertising Around Again Cycles. On the pavement behind it a small cluster of bricks can be seen that have fallen from the building behind the fence.
A bicycle chained to a safety fence advertising Around Again Cycles. On the pavement behind it a small cluster of bricks can be seen that have fallen from the building behind the fence.
The Methodist Church of Durham Street with wire fencing around the building. A red sticker on the front door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
Shipping containers on Main Road in Redcliffs that have been placed there to prevent rocks falling on passing cars. The road is buckled and lanes are marked with road cones.
An empty house on Avonside Drive. The overgrown lawn indicates that the house has been unoccupied for some time as a result of the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
A photograph submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Chaos at work – that pallet of boxes was stacked on top pf the other one, got thrown completely clear; Feb 22nd.".
A photograph submitted by Scott Thomas to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "The site that greeted me when I finally managed to beat a path to the washhouse on 24 February 2011.".
A vehicle that was smashed by fallen masonry from the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. In the background, the broken building can be seen.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A yellow sticker on the window of 164 Victoria Street. The sticker indicates that entry to the building is restricted to essential business".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The fallen corner tower of Cranmer Courts on the corner of Montreal and Kilmore Streets. Note that the satellite dish survived".
A document that outlines how timely and accurate information relating to estimating, actual project costs, future commitments, and total forecast cost, will be managed and reported for each project phase in the programme.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Road signs near the container barrier at Peacocks Gallop indicating that there is a danger of rock fall in the area".
A photograph of One Sugar Bowl and the Globe Cafe on High Street. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Remarkable that the cards and postcards are still there".
A paper which outlines what had been achieved by SCIRT's Training Team, and proposing an approach to ensure that the learnings from SCIRT be transferred to wider industry.