Considering Desiderata & Disaster

Confessions of a trainee academic

Blue's views

Oh, hai there :)

Thanks for dropping by. As you can see, I really like the new pad - especially the deck. I think the humans have done rather well.

But, I have to tell you, there have been some strange things going on lately. Firstly, mum spent ages putting up all these little marker flags on the walls & ceilings, and then she got grumpy at me when I proved to be awesome at catching them. I liked the ones halfway up the wall... they were especially fun.

I'm not entirely ...

Christchurch has one of best opportunities in the world for improving cycling, UC expert says

Every smile counts

Today is census day here in NZ - it was but a rather disruptive earthquake sequence put paid to that. It was quickly realised, by the powers-that-be, that any data collected was going to be horribly skewed by the mass exodus of people escaping Shakeytown, and tracking down everyone left behind would be near impossible. So, we do it today instead.

One News - Live Stream from Latimer Square - 2 Year Aniversary

In the key of B

Flowers of Hope - Second Quake Anniversary

Share this around and Remember the 185 lives lost 2 years ago. 

Last chance to have a say on transport in central Christchurch

Greater Christchurch residents are being urged to have their say on the An Accessible City draft document on transport in central Christchurch before the public consultation phase comes to an end.

Poptimist ahoy

Earlier this month, I spent a few days in Hobart while attending the conference.This is my favourite photo from the trip, taken on the first afternoon during a random walkabout. In the background is the conference venue, the UTAS School of Art - a converted jam factory on the waterfront.

Brightly painted fishing boats and floating restaurants dominate Hobart harbour - rather a nice change from the hulking great container ships that are prominent in Lyttelton. It was also nice to spend s ...

2012 Days of Xmas

Another year, another version!

Radio With Pictures

I spent most of last week thinking and talking about music, radio, music, documentaries, music, research and more music. With a little bit of 'life-after-devastation' thrown in for good measure. Many people I spoke to asked how the rebuild was going, and most were taken aback when I replied that, for the most part, we aren't up to the rebuilding bit yet - we're still in the demolition phase.

The ongoing effects of disaster don't usually filter through to overseas news outlets. People livi ...

Launch of the Canterbury Economic Recovery Programme, Addington Raceway, Christchurch

Gerry Brownlee | Canterbury Earthquake Recovery

Economic recovery programme launched

Gerry Brownlee | Canterbury Earthquake Recovery

Economic recovery programme launched

Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has highlighted 20 key projects in the Economic Recovery Programme for Greater Christchurch, launched 6 December 2012.

Chch energy grants for efficient building design progressing well

Christchurch Agency for Energy (CAfE) is pleased with the success of the Energyfirst programme which provides expert energy efficiency advice for city buildings over 500sqm within Christchurch City.

To do or not to do...

Lights on, lights off

In transition

The house-building process is kinda like any human relationship except that the equivalent journey of  meeting/dating/planning a wedding is squashed into a much shorter timeframe, with a few different people involved.

DOWN BY THE SEASHORE: SUMNER

A danger Christchurch’s past will be forgotten, UC lecturer says

There is a danger that most ongoing memories about Christchurch will just be about the city’s earthquakes and not the great things that once stood in the 162 years beforehand, a University of Canterbury (UC) researcher said today.

Earthquakes population loss bottoms out

Quake barely touches likely 2031 head tally

Christchurch's population will rise by 50,000 in the next two decades with growth expected at pre-earthquake levels, figures show.

For Want of a Nail

Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where this blogger is?

Cycle-share schemes for the next generation

Comparisons between the Christchurch earthquakes and the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931

Christchurch: The little organic shop the community bought

by Steve Carter

Christchurch: New Brighton residents embrace mural art – with multiple benefits

Prime Minister’s Address: Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Service, Tohoku, Japan

Christchurch: The extraordinary emerging community, two years on …

Visiting Christchurch After the Earthquakes

Greening the Rubble: Planting the seeds of freedom – by Steve Carter

Power to the people

Kick-starting tourism's limbo land

Christchurch: A Hub For Healthy Youth Development

Flat land zoning review decisions CERA [Live Stream]

Note that this Live Stream has now been completed - information that was broadcast (and more) is available on the following two links

Quakes shrink Canterbury economy

Putting it right

Christchurch: A food revolution from the ground up

Christchurch: Flourish – the conference about thriving – by Steve Carter

A conference with a flourish by Steve Carter Local Good News/Christchurch What is it to really flourish? Obviously, the answer to such a question is multifaceted and complex, so anyone organising a conference on the subject needs to be ...

Christchurch: Thrive – the conference about flourishing by Steve Carter

Christchurch: Flourish – the conference about thriving – by Steve Carter

A conference with a flourish by Steve Carter Local Good News/Christchurch What is it to really flourish? Obviously, the answer to such a question is multifaceted and complex, so anyone organising a conference on the subject needs to be ...

'Desperate' times for tourism operators

Investing in City Centres To Create Upward Cycle

Green city initiatives most popular

Christchurch: No Gallery Required

Christchurch: No Gallery Required

Local Good News/Christchurch Steve Carter “Wow”, you might well think as you see another wall adorned with a new work of art, “What is that?” Wandering around Christchurch these days is like taking a stroll among the pieces ...

PM: Council's $800m for CBD 'probably not enough'

7th Birthday Bash for Lyttelton Farmers Market

Rebuild Christchurch Excited over Planned Central City Rebuild Plan

Christchurch identity questioned

Oops

...where did that month go? Oh, I know.
Teaching starts in July, and before the teaching comes the prep and the organising and stuff.
Thesis proposal is due on August 1st, and before the submission comes the reading and the writing and the meetings and the thinking and stuff.



While the didn't injure anybody, the fact that this newly constructed, building could not cope with the weight and/or impact of dancing students could yet hurt a few reputations. And none of those inv ...

Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

Local Good News/Christchurch by Steve Carter There’s been ‘Shaking’ and there’s been “Quaking’ … kind of lends itself to poetry, right? Actually, there has been something of a gentle ban on earthquake doggerel at the Catalyst open-mic poetry ...

Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up

by Steve Carter Local Good News/Christchurch How about we do the Garden City differently this time around? Alongside many of the changes wrought by the Christchurch earthquakes, there has been a seizing of opportunities to rethink the ways ...

Christchurch: Garden City 2.0 – taking ownership from the flaxroots up

Integrated and Innovative: The Future of Regions - Day 673

Today I was doing some research on the future activities the are going to do over the next few years. We live in exciting times where there are a lot of changes aloft. Some of these changes are challenging and these will affect different members of our community in different ways. However there are amazing opportunities that will present themselves in the rebuild. These opportunities will be in all sorts of different sectors. Reading this article below thats written by John Eger which is f ...

Keeping old places alive in Christchurch

Curiosities

But wait, there's MONOPOLY!

3D video provides glimpse of the past