New Stuff
Songs for Christchurch
NEWS: Songs for Christchurch Debuted at No.2 on the New Zealand Music charts! In the weeks after Feb 22nd 2011 a collective of people... Project Details →
Freerange Vol.5: Dangerous and Wrong
The topic of Freerange Vol 5 is Dangerous & Wrong! – a phrase lifted from the angry rant of passionate moralists, concerned parents,... Project Details →
Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV
This book is a collection of 149 temporary and transitional projects that have occurred in Christchurch since September 2010. It... Project Details →
Chur Chur: Stories from the Christchurch earthquake
On the 22nd February 2011 the people of Christchurch experienced the most destructive earthquake in New Zealand’s young recorded... Project Details →
Latest online articles
Pirates Write Blogs Too, Right?
We're looking for new authors to join us as we embark (again?) on our courageously uncertain course through piratey waters, and try to make...
Read More →When I Draw–
“Y’know the real world, this so called real world is just something you put up with like everybody else. I’m in my element...
Read More →Things fall apart
It's easy to be relentlessly negative in the face of complex things. The difficult is easy to caste as the fault of incompetence,...
Read More →Interview with “Worrying About Money” Architects: The rise of Post-Modern Brutalism.
To coincide with the public launch of one of their recent designs, a Principal from the celebrated Christchurch architecture firm...
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Press
Original, independent, and ad free. Freerange Press is an online and print co-operative operating since 2008 and based in Aotearoa, Australia, and Atlantis. Freerange’s focus is on global issues of design, politics, art and life for an urbanized humanity. We write on this website, we publish books, and we create a journal called Freerange.
Journal
Freerange Journal is our flagship, it is a regularly released online and print journal that investigates the beauty and complexity of the city. Every six months we release a carefully edited and themed volume of prose and pictures.
Only 12 editions of Freerange Journal will be produced.
Books
We love the free flow of information, we love spreading good ideas in the largely free environment that the internet provides, but what can we say we also love books. A book offers an extended space for authors to explain, investigate and develop ideas, Freerange publishes a choice selection of books.
People
Project Freerange is people. Mums, Dads, Sons, Daughters, Sisters, Brothers, Lovers, Sinners, Designers, Artists, Lawyers, Rockers, Hip Hoppers, Diplomats, Nation-builders, House-builders, Teachers, Singers, Logicians, Statisticians. We have over 100 contributors from 6 continents. All people. No robots, yet.