More Cardboard Christchurch

Rise of the Cardboard Buildings

These are the first of the structures made during the workshop and then photoshopped into their sites.

Building Outlines

I have started sorting out the individual buildings made during the workshop so I can then put them in sites around Christchurch, the skyline would certainly be interesting if the buildings were really made.

Individual Buildings

The images below are some of the individual buildings and shelters that were made during the workshop. Over the next couple of weeks I will be digitally putting these buildings in photographs of the sites where the young people thought their building should go.

More Workshop Images

Maša, who helped out at the workshop, also took a wonderful set of photographs, so I shall post a number here. I have also started taking the individual buildings and shelters that were made and putting them in sites around Christchurch. Some of the young people had an area in mind and others didn't, so I will play at being a town planner and put them in sites they seem to fit. If it is your building and you are not happy with the site, you can contact Christchurch City Council Town Planning on 0800 MOVE MY BUILDING, only kidding, just email me with the place you would like it to be and with some digital magic I will move it.

And They're Off

Gimme Shelter Workshop let the building begin.

The cardboard gods were smiling on us, no wind and blues skies to start the day, which meant we could run the workshop outside. We got the cardboard out and set out a roughly planned, to be honest more random than planned, sites for the buildings to be built upon, using pallets as a base.

After a quick talk to the participants, it was time to start planning, choosing cardboard and get building. Each group got a set of items, which included tape, makedo bits and pieces and a badge, which was to wear not build with. This was all they had for their constructions, the rest was creative thinking and problem solving.

Gimme Shelter Workshop

The day before the workshop, Ashley, Sally and I went out and picked up the cardboard from various places including Mainfreight and Creative Junk, who provided a wide variety of cardboard from boxes to tubes. It was hard not to pick up  loads more exciting materials at Creative Junk, but we managed to restrict ourselves to cardboard only. So thank you to all at Creative Junk for supporting the workshop.
We stored the cardboard in one of the offices at The Commons, so no more work could be done, lucky it was a long weekend.

Cardboard is Magic

Jan Van Holleben

Cardboard Tunnel

This cardboard tunnel installation was part of a window display.