Our website has been upgraded!

Please go to www.ideasforchristchurch.org

Our new website is where we’re uploading submissions and has better discussion capabilities. Check it out, check out the submissions and share your thoughts!

Thanks to Arte Nomade and The Greenhorn Company! It was really great to see their wonderful projection event, and awesome to see some of the submissions we’ve received up on a building!

EXHIBITION  begins tomorrow ( Sept 30th) at CPIT for 2 weeks open everyday from 10am -6pm///A celebration night open to all will be held on Monday (Oct 4th) from 5.30pm///Images will be uploaded on this site over the coming week…

This is a call for ideas.

Christchurch’s recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake has severely damaged much of the built fabric of the city, in particular historic buildings in the centre. Outlying suburbs have been hard hit and vast numbers of homes will need to be reconsidered. Currently teams are working to assess, and to salvage what is possible of the city’s buildings. Within a few weeks large-scale rebuilding will begin.

This call for ideas comes from a group of young architectural graduates with an interest in engaging members of the public in dialogue around building decisions that affect them. The events in  Christchurch have given their concerns a direct and immediate weight: over the coming months, hugely significant, city-defining architectural and planning decisions are going to have to be made. We implore the public at large, as well as architecture students and practising architects, to become involved in a positive and productive discussion over the nature of these decisions and the kinds of rebuilding they would like to see take place. We want to see your ideas providing a framework to give shape to what could, should, or might be.

Choose your strategy, construct an argument, share a notion, indulge in joyful play, fight against or reach towards. Scale is open: form a strategic vision for the entire city; reconsider a hard hit  suburb; preserve a local dairy. Salvage heritage and character, design temporary infills, sustainable developments, urban parks/reserves, inner-city living, a new typology of housing, a city of skyscrapers, a city of pickles… whatever you find interesting. We want ideas, ideas to stimulate interest and establish discussion to achieve the best for Christchurch.

Design, plan, write, draw, paint, model, dream…  just share what you value and deliver it in an A3 digital format to ideasforchristchurch@gmail.com. Submit as often as you want, as a group or as an individual; identify yourself or remain anonymous.

We see this as urgent. Submissions are open from Wed 15th to Sat 25th September 5pm. Selected works will be uploaded to online discussion forums, presented to the media, and publicly exhibited. For submission requirements, further information, queries, and updates please email the above or comment below.