A photograph of children playing on the Sumner Skate Park.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.
A photograph of a person playing hockey in a street football arena built by Student Volunteer Army volunteers.
A photograph of a Nero playing while Rome burns, painted on a concrete block in a retaining wall. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton".
A photograph of a young child playing with bubble wrap at the Gap Filler Dance-O-Mat talk and speed-dancing session. The event was part of FESTA 2012.
Liz Kivi, Geoff Clements and Derek Bent setting up the television outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show. The television played videos of previous stories recorded in the UC QuakeBox.
Workers eat lunch at an outdoor table next to the Gap Filler Community Chess Set on Colombo Street. The Chess Set was a collaboration between Gap Filler and students at the University of Canterbury. The project aimed to restore the iconic Christchurch Chess Set that used to be played in Cathedral Square.
Disasters are a critical topic for practitioners of landscape architecture. A fundamental role of the profession is disaster prevention or mitigation through practitioners having a thorough understanding of known threats. Once we reach the ‘other side’ of a disaster – the aftermath – landscape architecture plays a central response in dealing with its consequences, rebuilding of settlements and infrastructure and gaining an enhanced understanding of the causes of any failures. Landscape architecture must respond not only to the physical dimensions of disaster landscapes but also to the social, psychological and spiritual aspects. Landscape’s experiential potency is heightened in disasters in ways that may challenge and extend the spectrum of emotions. Identity is rooted in landscape, and massive transformation through the impact of a disaster can lead to ongoing psychological devastation. Memory and landscape are tightly intertwined as part of individual and collective identities, as connections to place and time. The ruptures caused by disasters present a challenge to remembering the lives lost and the prior condition of the landscape, the intimate attachments to places now gone and even the event itself.