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Foreword Bernadette Muir
Featuring essays by Matthew Webby, Dr Jessica Halliday, Charlotte Hoare, Debbie Tikao & Huia Reriti, Yuqi Kong, Jasper van der Lingen, Daniel Crooks, Colin Corsbie & Fritha Powell
Following the 2010-11 earthquakes and their aftermath, Christchurch’s built fabric was irrevocably changed and the history of its architecture disrupted. Familiar landmarks vanished, whole swathes of the city were red-zoned, heritage buildings were demolished and a sense of dislocation prevailed. The ongoing rebuild of the city was to follow.
This book documents the architecture that arose from this time – from schools, libraries and commercial buildings to public realm design. With eight essays narrating the post-quake progression from immediate response through to the subsequent architectural contributions, and 80 concise catalogue entries sharing the story of select buildings and their role in the rebuild, we explore what our architecture can tell us about ourselves and the place we live in. Richly illustrated throughout, Shifting Foundations captures the journey towards a more meaningful melding of people and place, enabled by architecture.
With thanks to Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects, whose support enabled the making of this book.
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Publication Date: 2023
Book Size: 270mm x 216mm
Format: Hardcover, full colour illustrations throughout
Page count: 224
ISBN: 978-0-473-65966-0
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Radical Futures series
Humans are changing the world in extremely complex ways, creating a new geological age called the Anthropocene. How do we – as parents, caregivers and as a society – raise our children and dependents in this new world?
This multi-author book explores ways to ensure the health and wellbeing of the next generations, with a view to encouraging inclusivity and critical discourse at a time of climate crisis, inequality and polarisation. From tikanga Māori and collective care in child-rearing through to new family forms, futures literacy, and shifting economic paradigms and societal structures, Parenting in the Anthropocene is a reflection of both the world we live in and the one we aspire to.
Featuring:
Emily Writes (writer & mother)
Amanda Malu (CEO of Whānau Awhina Plunket)
Jess Berentson-Shaw (researcher & advocate)
Dr David Galler (intensive care specialist)
Mia Sutherland (youth climate-change activist)
Briohny Doyle (writer & lecturer)
Nicola Surtees, PhD (academic & former ECE teacher)
Leonie Pihama (Te tiawa, Waikato, Ngā Māhanga a Tairi)
Brannavan Gnanalingam (writer & lawyer)
Amy L. Fletcher, PhD (academic & futurist)
Sacha McMeeking (researcher & commentator)
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Publication Date: 2021
Book Size: 210mm x 148mm
Format: Soft cover
Page count: 130
ISBN: 978-0-473-55938-0
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From its beginnings in 1969 as a student capping stunt, student radio has gone on to become an influential source of music and culture across Aotearoa New Zealand. Fresh sounds, new talent and creative expression have secured the sector’s reputation as the ‘research and development’ branch of the country’s music milieu, where each station is a champion of its local scene, serving as a springboard for bands, presenters and contributors.
‘Other Stations Are Shit’: Student Radio in Aotearoa New Zealand celebrates the contributions of student radio to the arts ecosystem. With full colour images and ephemera, staff profiles and chapters on each of the contemporary stations in addition to student radio whānau, music and its future, this book explores and documents the cultural phenomenon that is student radio.
Edited by Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati) and Jo Smith (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha)
Soil health and security are key components of our wellbeing. Even so, soil is faced with many environmental challenges under the current iteration of capitalism. A paradigm shift is needed to encourage care for this resource. In te ao Māori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga – it holds ancestral connections and is the root of turangawaewae and whakapapa. It is the source of shelter, kai and manaakitanga.
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook shines a light on Māori relationships with soil, as well as the connections between soil and food security, and frames these links within the wider discourse of tino rangatiratanga from a variety of Māori perspectives. Through a range of essays, profiles and recipes, it seeks to promote wellbeing and elevate the mana of the soil by drawing on the hua parakore Māori organics framework as a means for understanding these wide-ranging, diverse and interwoven relationships with soil.
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Publication Date: 2021; third print run November 2023
Book Size: 234mm x 165mm
Format: Soft cover, Full colour illustrations throughout
Page count: 188
ISBN: 978-0473-51619-2
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Radical Futures series
This is the second volume in the Radical Futures series, which is focused on future challenges that affect us all. Freerange Press wishes to acknowledge the support of AUT, without which this publication would not have been possible.
What do we know? And how do we know it? These are essential questions to consider when a functioning democracy is reliant on an informed populace. Yet at this moment in the information age something has gone awry with our public knowledge. Are we cultivating an environment for the sharing of ideas? Who has access to the institutions and practices that hold our collective knowledge? Do we know when to act and when to delegate to experts? Is our education, in the broader sense of the term, sufficient for us to meaningfully participate in public life?
From archives and mātauranga Māori to formal education models and knowledge types that inspire action, this multi-author book explores the state of our public knowledge, its potential and how it affects our public life and conversations. With the need to find responsive solutions to the challenges facing us, the health of our public knowledge matters to us all.
Featuring:
Barnaby Bennett (designer)
Golriz Ghahraman (Member of Parliament)
Gwynn Compton (public relations)
Hannah Benbow (cartoon librarian)
Jared Davidson (archivist & historian)
Joseph Hullen (Ngāi Tūahuriri/Ngāti Hinematua)
Lana Lopesi (editor)
Marianne Elliott (researcher & advocate)
Michael Macaulay (Victoria University)
Morgan Godfery (writer & trade unionist)
Nicola Gaston (University of Auckland)
Ruth Boyask (Auckland University of Technology)
Sacha McMeeking (researcher & commentator)
Sally Blundell (journalist)
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Publication Date: 2020
Book Size: 210mm x 148mm
Format: Soft cover
Page count: 144 pages
ISBN: 978-0-473-49573-2
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Shifting Foundations: Post-quake Architecture of Ōtautahi Christchurch
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