"Crunch city to Cool Christchurch" - Christchurch 21 March 2013. View video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWkUCItgfkE

2. ART is SCIENCE made CLEAR jean cocteau
• Who took the knowledge out of the knowledge
economy?
• Christchurch has about 10 centres of learning –
all wanting to help, but this talent under-utilised
(except for digging silt)
• TBL is about having business, environment and
society at the board table, not picking up pieces
from a predetermined agenda after the event !
• Having an historical & long view

3. WE NEED GREAT CITY STUFF
HAPPENING !
• Inclusive - Diverse – a Brains Trust – not
elitest
• facilitated by skilled mediator
• Zero-tolerance of race & ethnic hatred
• Deadly dull ??? – reinstate Youth Council
• South Island alliance – Govt has to
provide for head offices & career paths in
the South
• Northern subsidies matched

4. All faiths &
cultures
Sight Lines of Light & Unity
Mosque-Marae-Synagogue-Cathedral-Basilica-

5. HOLISTIC – MULTI-DIMENSIONAL - >TBL
• Legible – sense of place - layered
history
• Gondwana – Tangata Whenua – Colonial –
Tectonics – Synthesis & Partnership
• Ecological
• biodiversity hotspot
• bellbird/korimako capital of the world
• New anchor – an eco-sanctuary ,

6. Bellbird/Korimako Capital
Bellbird –
Rob Dalley

7. Wider Eco-City
Easter
Context nAnch
or
S Motorway
7

8. Travis-Avon-Otakaro Eco-
Sanctuary
• 150ha Predator-Proofed Eco-
Eco-centre
Sanctuary Anchor Project
Water • with Wildlife Bridge
crossing • Increased diversity/visitor
Gat experience
e • Environmental education centre
Bridge • A permanent commercial

9. VIABLE BUSINESS – VIABLE CITY
• Sustainable – footprint of massive earthmoving –
100 machines x $1 000/d x 300d = $30m/yr?
• 500 artisans & builders dismantling, reusing,
rebuilding, recreating, caring
• Why not make a pyramid out of the rubble – on site?
• Landscape management – ecological input (cost
saving)
• Eco-tourism
• Great Perimeter Walkway - not just a stroll , but extra
nights & spillover economy
• Too much emphasis on first up paid activities –
money grubbing?
• Apocalypse tourism
• A South Island Soap Opera – sick of seeing

10. Great Perimeter Walkway – encapsulating diversity,
legibility, healthy city & eco-tourist opportunity

12. Taverns, cafés, cycleways, education, stay

13. What people queue up to
see!

14. Coventry

15. IT’S NOT NECESSARILY GRAND – BUT IT’S REAL
Dunkirk – you hear
the desperate sound of

16. The Kate Sheperd Precinct
• Fenced for domestic animals &
vandals
• Remove dangerous materials
• Allow to regenerate
The fact is we are
drawn to authentic
destruction, decay,
ruins, mystery and
rebirth – cathartic!
people pay good
money!
Indiana Jones & Lost
Civilisations

17. Creative
Innovative
• Active celebration of our soulful artists,
musicians, actors – relevant to young
people
• Get some amazing fusion concerts going
• We’re way too slow
• We don’t deserve the title of
Conservative & the place for
kids to leave
in droves !

18. Landscapes of the
Mind
Virtual Reality to Nature Deficit
Disorder to Extinction of
Experience Back to Identity
Distinctive juvenile &
divaricating growth Forms
Plant Signatures that
speak to us of Our Place

19. CHRISTCHURCH at a CROSS ROADS
For cultural survival we need to be
BOLD & Edgy
• Lift sights, think outside square,
change perceptions, have a vision,
synergise, join the dots don’t be
mediocred by lowest common
denominator
• Not a gateway to somewhere
else and an exporter of talent
• Feels like The Scream – watching
opportunities sent to landfill
– to be exumed by sea level rise by
next century – what a waste!

20. LEGIBLE CULTURAL LANDSCAPES & VALUES
open our minds for design Raupo
The Fires of pollen/
Tamatea pua for
bread
The English
Ti Kouka
track marker Symbolism
in sculpture

21. Wildlife
(&
Pedestrian)
Bridge