See Charlie Gates, “1240 Central Christchurch Buildings Demolished,” stuff, February 20, 2015, ➝.
This connection was brokered through the Life in Vacant Spaces Trust (LiVS), an organization created post-earthquake, which has enabled Bailey Peryman to test a diversity of different local food initiatives. The land is accessed legally via a rolling lease with a thirty-day notice period and a verbal tenure agreement of two to five years.
In Te Reo Māori, the word kaupapa encompasses a number of meanings. Here, it is used to refer to a set of agreed principles or values that a group is working with; see: Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, “Papatūānuku—the land—Whakapapa and kaupapa,” Te Ara—the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, September 24, 2007, ➝. It is used fairly regularly in New Zealand English by people of any cultural and linguistic background.
Joan Tronto, “There is an alternative: homines curans and the limits of neoliberalism,” International Journal of Care and Caring 1, no. 1 (2017): 27–43.
See “Permaculture Principles,” Permaculture in New Zealand, ➝.
Manaakitanga is a Te Reo Māori noun encompassing hospitality, an ethic of care and generosity. It is sometimes used in New Zealand English; see: Molly Mullen and Bōni Te Rongopai Tukiwaho, “Taurima Vibes: Economies of manaakitanga and care in Aotearoa New Zealand,” in The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance, vol. 1, eds. Tim Prentki and Ananda Breed (Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2021), 43–55, ➝.
You can learn more about the state of Cultivate as of January 2020 by listening to the following podcast, captured at the time author Bailey Peryman was committing to moving out of the organisation: “Food: The Healer,” The Why We Grow Show, January 8, 2020, ➝.
Kelly Dombroski et al., “Food for People in Place: Reimagining Resilient Food Systems for Economic Recovery,” Sustainability 12, no. 22 (2020): 9369, ➝.
This is a vast corridor of land that, since the 2010–2011 earthquakes, is no longer considered stable enough to build upon. See: “Christchurch residential red zone areas,” Land Information New Zealand, October 14, 2020, ➝.
For more on certified havening practices, see Frances Lamb, “What is Havening,” Havening, 2020, ➝.
The authors would both like to acknowledge Fi Stewart and the staff and interns at Cultivate, without whom this piece would not be possible. Thanks to Clinton Lloyd, Sophie Merkens, and Cultivate Christchurch for the images. Kelly would like to acknowledge funding from the National Science Challenge Building Better Homes Towns and Cities, for the project Delivering Urban Wellbeing for Transformative Community Enterprise. She would like to acknowledge her collaborators Gradon Diprose, David Conradson, Stephen Healy, and Alison Watkins, particularly Gradon and David, who conducted some of the interviews quoted. Bailey would also like to acknowledge scholarship funding from Building Better Homes Towns and Cities, part of the Huritanga Systems Change for Urban Wellbeing program.
Survivance is a collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and e-flux Architecture.