Rachael Boswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachael Boswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachael |
| FAMILY NAME | Boswell |
| SIGNATURE | BOSWELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9356-8652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Temporalities of creativity in city-making
Experimentation, privilege, and difference
The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010-2012 was devastating for Christchurch, New Zealand, a city built on a floodplain. The sequence resulted in widespread damage across the central business district (CBD) and residential areas. Alongside, and in contrast to, orthodox planning responses by the New Zealand Government, playful, creative, and temporary projects emerged in vacant spaces. These were designed to bring back life and energy to the c…
On the intersection of geographical thought and artistic practice
In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I imagine a future for geographical thought and praxis lying partly in the interesting places where they overlap with artistic practice. I ground this thinking on the unstable surface found in the years immediately following the 2010–11 earthquakes in Ch…
Experimentation, privilege, and difference
The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010-2012 was devastating for Christchurch, New Zealand, a city built on a floodplain. The sequence resulted in widespread damage across the central business district (CBD) and residential areas. Alongside, and in contrast to, orthodox planning responses by the New Zealand Government, playful, creative, and temporary projects emerged in vacant spaces. These were designed to bring back life and energy to the c…
On the intersection of geographical thought and artistic practice
In this commentary, I explore what an artists’ process offers to city-making: how urban experimentation can open up hopeful, surprising, and imaginative urban encounters and futures. By doing so, I imagine a future for geographical thought and praxis lying partly in the interesting places where they overlap with artistic practice. I ground this thinking on the unstable surface found in the years immediately following the 2010–11 earthquakes in Ch…
Experimentation, privilege, and difference
The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010-2012 was devastating for Christchurch, New Zealand, a city built on a floodplain. The sequence resulted in widespread damage across the central business district (CBD) and residential areas. Alongside, and in contrast to, orthodox planning responses by the New Zealand Government, playful, creative, and temporary projects emerged in vacant spaces. These were designed to bring back life and energy to the c…
Temporalities of creativity in city-making
Architecture (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Urbanism (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Law (2 works)