Rephotography

The Living Lab seeks to capture change through time as the river corridor adapts to environmental change since the earthquakes. We originally set up a network of 31 sites, grouped in six parts of the corridor, as illustrated on the map below. We have now reduced this to six sites, one in each group. Photographs are taken at each site at different seasons, replicating the location, orientation, aspect and composition of the first photograph in the sequence.

The six sites will be illustrated below, with the photographs at each contextualised in a sequence of four time frames:

• the original vegetation, before housing

• the last Google street view pre-earthquakes

• the current view

• an indication of likely future state at the site.

The illustrations for each site can be enlarged to provide a clear narrative of change over time.

Chimera Crescent

Nov 2022 - May 2024

Otakaro Place

Nov 2022 - Feb 2024