Sunday 15 October, 10 – 11 am As part of the Christchurch Heritage Festival 2023, join Our Stories Project for a guided audio walk of the central city, where you’ll hear stories from people who were in the city on 22 February 2011, when the 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck. There… Read More »Heritage Festival: Earthquake Stories Walk
The Earthquake Stories Walk, developed earlier this year by Our Stories Project Trust with the support of the Arts Digital Lab, recently featured on the Speak Up – Kōrerotia podcast on Plains FM 96.9. Kōrerotia, hosted by Sally Carlton, is New Zealand’s only specialist human rights radio show. The theme… Read More »Earthquake audio trail featured on Kōrerotia podcast
A new digital audio experience launching next week will connect powerful quake memories to physical places in the city – to provide residents and visitors with a unique opportunity to understand the pain and resilience and human impact of the Canterbury Earthquakes. “I was on the fifth floor of the… Read More »Quake stories come to life with new audio walk
Professor Paul Millar is the winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2022 Pou Aronui Award, for distinguished service to humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time. We’re thrilled to acknowledge Paul’s achievement and very pleased to see the work he has done at UC, particularly with the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes… Read More »Paul Millar – Royal Society Pou Aronui Award 2022
On Tuesday the UC Arts Digital Lab, main office of the CEISMIC earthquake digital archive, hosted Hon Clare Curran, the current Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media, and Minister of Government Digital Services. The Minister was welcomed to campus by Vice Chancellor Rod Carr and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Arts… Read More »Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media visits the Lab
The UC Arts Digital Lab is excited to announce the launch of a new and improved UC QuakeStudies earthquake research repository. QuakeStudies, the University of Canterbury’s major contribution to the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, contains photographs, documents, videos, audio recordings, media articles, and other material relating to the 2010/2011… Read More »A New Look for UC QuakeStudies
At the National Digital Forum in Wellington last month, Jennifer, along with Jonathan Hunt from Catalyst IT, gave a presentation on progress with migrating QuakeStudies to the new Islandora platform:
