Challenge
Make robust shelters from useful stuff sourced from local industry with the intention of building capacity and resilience through learning where to source useful stuff, experimenting with making, exchanging resources and sharing knowledge.
Pilot
Art Emporium School Holiday Workshop
Corban Estate Arts Centre Sheds
Tue 19 – Thu 21 July, 10am – 2.30pm
Registration or phone 09 8384455
What child doesn’t love building huts and shelters from the things they find? Now’s their chance to create and build amazing, robust shelters from useful stuff sourced from local industry.
Xin Cheng and Chris Bethelsen have collaborated with Civil Defence experts to bring you an exciting 3 day programme all about shelter during the July School holidays. They will work with children and their whanau to transform Shed 2 into a bustling hut city.
The °TEMP Arts Emporium focuses on building capacity and resilience through learning where to source useful materials, experimenting with making, exchanging resources and sharing knowledge. Normally for children aged 5 – 9 years, this holiday we’re inviting older siblings and parents/grandparents/whanau along too.
°TEMP, in partnership with CEAC, calls on our west Auckland community to donate goods and services to this project, we will approach industry to donate building and surplus materials that might be suitable for shelters and human habitat following a post disaster emergency situation.
Team
Jamie Richards is the Senior Public Education Adviser at Auckland Civil Defence and Emergency Management. Jamie has worked for Civil Defence and Emergency Management for 10 years, holds a M.I.Fire E and a Graduate Diploma in Emergency Management. His background is emergency services, with 19 years’ service with fire services and health authorities. Over the years, he has fulfilled multiple roles in civil defence and emergency management, with his current role requiring him to specialise in public education. Jamie balances theory and practice with a wealth of experience in operational duties in emergency operations / coordination / crisis centres and field trips to disaster areas around the world.
Make-do(ing): Xin Cheng and Chris Bethelsen – http://making-doing.info
In early 2014 Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen encountered each other by chance through a mutual interest in tyres. Since then they have realised a number of activities across Auckland and internationally.
Xin Cheng has made works for Freedom Farmers (Auckland Art Gallery) and run workshops and collaborative performances in Italy, Taiwan and Korea. She has been working with split/fountain on publication and exhibition projects since 2011, most recently organising the makeshift series (2015). Over April 2016, she designed and made furniture and sculptures from deconstruction waste for Hostel Yume Nomad (Japan). Through hitchhiking, couchsurfing and volunteering in Aotearoa, Asia and Europe, and undertaking residencies in Norway, Italy, Cambodia, Switzerland and Korea (including living on a trash mountain in Seoul), Xin has developed a strong interest in everyday resourcefulness, improvisation and alternative economies. She studied ecology, psychology and fine arts at the University of Auckland. http://xin-cheng.info
Chris Berthelsen’s projects range over work environments, urban design, and alternative education. He holds degrees in art history and economics, and a Masters degree in international business from the University of Auckland. From 2007-9 he was a postgraduate Monbugakusho (Japanese government funded) research student in innovation and advanced Japanese at Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo) and in 2014-15 was a fully-funded postgraduate student in design and creative technologies at the Auckland University of Technology interdisciplinary unit Colab. He is currently working on a publishing project which explores the implications of frugal DIY for engineering and architectural practitioners and organisations. Recent and forthcoming presentations of work (2013-15) include conferences in Hong Kong, Auckland, and Milano, and Japan-focused chapters for the books Farming the City: Food as a Tool for Today’s Urbanisation (Trancity, Netherlands), and Enabling City (Vol. 2) (a publication that highlights projects and people that enhance creative community resilience). http://small-workshop.info
Image: Research photo: on a mountain in Kobe, Japan. Found by Xin Cheng.