Sumner Skate Park Photograph 1

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A photograph of children playing on the Sumner Skate Park.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (63)

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People playing bike polo on Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat" site.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 22 (107)

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A digitally altered photograph of people playing games inside the Pallet Pavilion.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 14 (84)

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People play music to accompany a film at Gap Filler's cycle-powered cinema.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 21:27:36

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Silhouette Carnival 2012:10:20 22:21:04

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 22:57:14

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 22:50:04

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 22:08:06

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 22:49:57

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 22:22:44

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Photograph of Sound Cone 2012:10:20 21:27:32

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A photograph of a band playing on stage in the 'Sound Cone' space at LUXCITY.

Street Football Photograph 3

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A photograph of a person playing hockey in a street football arena built by Student Volunteer Army volunteers.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0174

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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".

Dance-O-Mat Talk and Speed Dancing Session Photograph 7

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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.

Photographs of Gap Filler project 10 (42)

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Wintering, a folk collaboration from Wellington, performing at the Gap Filler Community Chess Board. To the right, members of the public are playing mini golf on one of the Gap Golf courses.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (9)

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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.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (42)

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The washing machine on Gap Filler's "Dance-O-Mat". The washing machine is coin operated. When a two dollar coin is fed into the machine, it lights up the stage and plays a music device.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 15 (47)

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A digitally altered photograph of a child next to the "Dance-O-Mat" washing machine. The washing machine is coin operated. When a two dollar coin is fed in, it lights up the "Dance-O-Mat" and plays a plugged-in music device.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 116

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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.

Photograph of Gap Filler Project 19 (4)

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A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.

Photograph of Gap Filler Project 19 (6)

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A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.

Photograph of Gap Filler Project 19 (2)

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A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.

Photograph of Gap Filler Project 19 (5)

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A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.

Photograph of Gap Filler Project 19 (3)

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A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years.

Photograph of Gap Filler Project 19 (1)

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A photograph of footage of Cathedral Square playing on a number of computer monitors as part of Gap Filler's ninth project, Thinking Outside the Square. The footage was sourced from the Christchurch community and cut into an hour-long video spanning 100 years. The monitors are placed amongst wooden pallets, an excavator, and other building material.

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.