Christchurch

Life In the Zone in N-Zed — It was 2014, January. Off the coast the Pacific Plate slid along the Australian Plate and our house began to shake. We were about 20 miles from the epicenter of one in a long series of New Zealand earthquakes. There’s nothing like standing on terra firma and have it go…

Earthquakes, fireworks, and a trip to Antarctica — I remember the conversation vividly. It was 2010, and TED had only recently launched the TEDx program. I was debating whether I should apply for a license and asked a colleague what she thought. “How would you feel,” she asked thoughtfully, “if someone else in Christchurch did it first?” I…

Design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in a community, a community in a city… Eliel Saarinen Executive Summary Canterbury has a neglected transport system that isn’t fit for purpose, whether it be meeting New…

New Zealand 2011–12 54 Raekura Place, Redcliffs.JPG From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. Date/Time…en.wikipedia.org We arrived in New Zealand not long after the 2011 Canturbury and 2012 Christchurch devastating earthquakes. The New Zealanders we knew were justifiably sensitive on the subject, though those big ones had been 10 or so hours by car from our neighborhood. …

Security & Insecurity The lone terror attack to take place in Aotearoa this century was carried out by a right-wing white nationalist. …

This is a step-by-step tutorial showing how I used Kepler GL to visualise 35,000 earthquakes over a period of 14 or so years in or around Christchurch, New Zealand. From their site, “Kepler.gl is a data agnostic, WebGL empowered, high-performance web application for geospatial analytic visualizations.”. To me, that’s a…

Is it possible to eradicate terrorism and violent extremism from the internet? To prevent videos and livestreams of attacks from going viral and maybe even prevent them from being shared or uploaded in the first place? …

This is why New Zealand and France launched, two years ago, with Leaders of Governments and Tech companies, the Christchurch Call to action. The Christchurch Call to action is a series of measures to prevent the downloading and dissemination of terrorist and violent extremist content, to improve transparency in the…