IntensCITY Week | Wellington City Council
IntensCITY week asked, cajoled, and sometimes forced people to consider their relationship to the city, Wellington City in October 2007. Consisting of 10 major events spread throughout the city and over 20,000 local, national and international participants IntensCITY Week engaged at many scales with public installations, exhibitions, debates, lectures and competitions.
The vibrancy, diversity and ‘buzz’ of Wellington are a direct result of the fortunate topography of harbour and hills the city enjoys as well as the network of public open spaces that have developed. The way these spaces are shaped, the buildings that front them, and the manner in which they are used by people are, in turn, the direct result of good urban design decisions over the last centaury.
Urban design was the focus of IntensCITY Week, an inaugural event in October 2007, of what is intended to be an annual celebration of Wellington’s leadership in the importance of good urban design.
IntensCITY Week was a weeklong dialogue aimed at engaging a wide range of participants to review and propose ideas for the city’s physical future through to 2040 – the 200th anniversary of European settlement.
While IntensCITY Week was a new event for Wellington, it built on the many events associated with the 2005 Year of the Built Environment, especially the highly successful 2005 Urbanism Down Under conference . Similarly, IntensCITY Week was inspired by the success of London’s Architecture Biennale . It also incorporated World Architecture Day, held in New Zealand on Monday, 1 October, with a focus in Wellington on urban design and the city. IntensCITY Week is seen as fulfilling many of the objectives of New Zealand’s Urban Design Protocol, which was launched in May 2005
Wellington City Council was a major supporter and funder of IntensCITY Week with the Ministry for the Environment as a key Event Partner. IntensCITY Week was also run with support from the Wellington Architecture Centre, Wellington Civic Trust and the New Zealand Property Council.
Image Credits: Neil price
Project Team; Simon Bush-King, Gerald Blunt, Margy Davenport, Carole van Grondelle (Lyric Communications), Grant Stevenson, (The Whiteboard)
The vibrancy, diversity and ‘buzz’ of Wellington are a direct result of the fortunate topography of harbour and hills the city enjoys as well as the network of public open spaces that have developed. The way these spaces are shaped, the buildings that front them, and the manner in which they are used by people are, in turn, the direct result of good urban design decisions over the last centaury.
Urban design was the focus of IntensCITY Week, an inaugural event in October 2007, of what is intended to be an annual celebration of Wellington’s leadership in the importance of good urban design.
IntensCITY Week was a weeklong dialogue aimed at engaging a wide range of participants to review and propose ideas for the city’s physical future through to 2040 – the 200th anniversary of European settlement.
While IntensCITY Week was a new event for Wellington, it built on the many events associated with the 2005 Year of the Built Environment, especially the highly successful 2005 Urbanism Down Under conference . Similarly, IntensCITY Week was inspired by the success of London’s Architecture Biennale . It also incorporated World Architecture Day, held in New Zealand on Monday, 1 October, with a focus in Wellington on urban design and the city. IntensCITY Week is seen as fulfilling many of the objectives of New Zealand’s Urban Design Protocol, which was launched in May 2005
Wellington City Council was a major supporter and funder of IntensCITY Week with the Ministry for the Environment as a key Event Partner. IntensCITY Week was also run with support from the Wellington Architecture Centre, Wellington Civic Trust and the New Zealand Property Council.
Image Credits: Neil price
Project Team; Simon Bush-King, Gerald Blunt, Margy Davenport, Carole van Grondelle (Lyric Communications), Grant Stevenson, (The Whiteboard)