A photograph of a woman at the RAD Bikes bike shed for a hands-on talk. The talk was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of people gathered at the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street for a bike restoration workshop, as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of people gathered at the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street for a bike restoration workshop, as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of people gathered at the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street for a bike restoration workshop, as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of people gathered at the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street for a bike restoration workshop, as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a bike being restored during a hands-on workshop at the RAD Bikes bike shed. The event was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a bike being restored at the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street during a workshop. The workshop was part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of two men working on a bike inside the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street, during a workshop as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a young man working on a bike inside the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street, during a workshop as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a young man working on a bike inside the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street, during a workshop as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a bike being restored at the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street during a hands-on talk. The event was part of FESTA 2013.
The Ozone Dressing Sheds on Marine Parade. The photographer comments, "A bike ride to New Brighton and the beach 3 weeks after the Feb 22 quake. Roads were still very rough and under reconstruction.
The Ozone Dressing Sheds on Marine Parade. The photographer comments, "A bike ride to New Brighton and the beach 3 weeks after the Feb 22 quake. Roads were still very rough and under reconstruction.
A photograph of a sign on the RAD Bikes bike shed on Gloucester Street. The sign reads "RAD Bikes Recycle A Dunger. This is an ex-demolition site. Hazards may exist. Please take care".
The Ozone Dressing Sheds on Marine Parade. The photographer comments, "A bike ride to New Brighton and the beach 3 weeks after the Feb 22 quake. Roads were still very rough and under reconstruction. In New Brighton, EQC assessments look a lot like tagging".
A photograph of plants in a raised garden bed at Agropolis, an urban farm on the corner of High Street and Tuam Street. In the background, people are filling in the base of a shed with concrete. Agropolis was the venue for several events throughout FESTA 2013.
A photograph of people standing in a pile of soil that has been placed on a white sheet, during a shed-building workshop at Agropolis. Agropolis is an urban farm on the corner of High Street and Tuam Street. Agropolis was the venue for several events throughout FESTA 2013.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team climbing a ladder up the back of a house on Gloucester Street. The ladder has been placed against the house so that the ERT members can enter the building through the open window. To the right a section of the house next door has collapsed and the bricks have spilled onto the shed below.
This section considers forms of collaboration in situated and community projects embedded in important spatial transformation processes in New Zealand cities. It aims to shed light on specific combinations of material and semantic aspects characterising the relation between people and their environment. Contributions focus on participative urban transformations. The essays that follow concentrate on the dynamics of territorial production of associations between multiple actors belonging both to civil society and constituted authority. Their authors were directly engaged in the processes that are reported and conceptualised, thereby offering evidence gained through direct hands-on experience. Some of the investigations use case studies that are conspicuous examples of the recent post-traumatic urban development stemming from the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2011. More precisely, these cases belong to the early phases of the programmes of the Christchurch recovery or the Wellington seismic prevention. The relevance of these experiences for the scope of this study lies in the unprecedented height of public engagement at local, national and international levels, a commitment reached also due to the high impact, both emotional and concrete, that affected the entire society.