People gather to remember, Avonside

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1185 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

Deborah Fitchett's Livejournal Blog 22/2/2012: In which we remember a year

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 22 February 2012, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which we remember a year".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.

Deborah Fitchett's Dreamwidth Blog 22/2/2012: In which we remember a year

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 22 February 2012, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which we remember a year".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 273

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Now that the grass has been mown in Victoria Square, this view is almost the way we remember it".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0994

Images, UC QuakeStudies

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".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0993

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0991

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0992

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0990

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0982

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0989

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A poem at Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0987

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The memorial table at Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0988

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The memorial table at Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 315

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A notice on the fence outside the CTV site on Madras Street. The notice reads, "Please respect this site. In recognition of the special significance this site holds for the people of our city and all those affected by the earthquakes, the Christchurch City Council is working with Canterbury Museum to preserve aspects of our remembering. Tributes may be left at this site. Older tributes will be removed for archiving by the Canterbury Museum to become part of the city's memory of the Canterbury Earthquakes. Organic materials will be composted and used in the city's gardens. Canterbury Museum. Christchurch City Council".

Post-disaster landscapes

Research Papers, Lincoln University

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.