A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Lane Walker Rudkins, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Curries Road cable laying, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Curries Road cable laying, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Brougham Street mural. Post-earthquake Sydenham".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Brougham Street mural. Post-earthquake Sydenham".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Brougham Street mural. Post-earthquake Sydenham".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Curries Road cable laying, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Curries Road cable laying, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Curries Road cable laying, post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Curries Road cable laying, post earthquake".
A photograph of a painted piano. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Gap Fillers, post earthquake. Woolston".
A photograph of a painted piano. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Gap Fillers, post earthquake. Woolston".
A photograph of a painted piano. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Gap Fillers, post earthquake. Woolston".
A photograph of a painted piano. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Gap Fillers, post earthquake. Woolston".
A photograph of a sign on a painted piano. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Gap Fillers, post earthquake. Woolston".
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.