Thomson, C.J.2015-07-242015-07-242015Thomson, C.J. (2015) Digital technologies and material culture in post-earthquake Christchurch. Melbourne, Australia: Digital Densities, 26-27 Mar 2015.http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10680There is a now a rich literature on the connections between digital media, networked computing, and the shaping of urban material cultures. Much less has addressed the post-disaster context, like we face in Christchurch, where it is more a case of re-build rather than re-new. In what follows I suggest that Lev Manovich’s well-known distinction between narrative and database as distinct but related cultural forms is a useful framework for thinking about the Christchurch rebuild, and perhaps urbanism more generally.enConference Contributions - OtherField of Research::08 - Information and Computing Sciences::0805 - Distributed Computing::080505 - Web Technologies (excl. Web Search)Fields of Research::33 - Built environment and design::3304 - Urban and regional planning::330411 - Urban design