Category Archives: Blogathon 2009 – Vancouver Public Space Network

All posts related to, included in, and leading up to, my participation in Blogathon 2009.

Blogathon 2009 – Golden Ears Bridge Opening in HD and Super-8

Videos from the Golden Ears Bridge opening celebration – shot in high-definition video and super-8 film.

Blogathon 2009 – Seeing Cities in Maps

A conceptual post around the tradeoffs of using social versus visual representations of space and information, with reference to the City of Regina Survival Guide and Map.

Blogathon 2009: Public Art: printed, pasted pastiche

This blog post is part of Blogathon 2009, in which I am blogging for 24 hours straight in order to raise money for the Vancouver Public Space Network, an entirely volunteer-run organization who do advocacy and education on the public realm in my home of Vancouver, British Columbia. Please consider supporting by sponsoring me with [...]

Blogathon 2009 – On politics and being political

Touching bases on my feelings around deliberate political action in the push for social change.

Blogathon 2009 – Buying, Eating and Living Local: The Home Grown Grocer

I often say that I’m not very good at community, but from what I hear, it might look something like the story of this store. Deb’s business card for The Home Grow-In Grocer states, “We spcialize in only Natural / Organic / Local products of British Columbia.”

Blogathon 2009 – Check-in to the Vancouver Brightkite Meetup on Tuesday, July 28th

The first) (of hopefully many) Vancouver Brightkite Users Meetup is taking place on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009.

Blogathon 2009 – Unintended Uses: Bike Polo (!) (?) at Sunset Beach

We’d heard rumours, but never actually seen people playing bike polo. Bike polo! We passed by them at Sunset Beach one day.

Blogathon 2009 – Canadian Centre for Architecture, and What You Can Do With the City

When I was in Montreal at the beginning of the month, I had the good fortune to visit the Canadian Centre for Architecture, on Canada Day. I wish I had been there for their previous exhibit, What You Can Do With The City.

Blogathon 2009 – Marpole Grows: Communicating Development Scenarios

Guest post from Farzine MacRae about the use of video in participatory design, with specific reference to a project done at SCARP in 2008 for the neighbourhood of Marpole.

Blogathon 2009 – Burrard Street Bridge Public Space Art Intervention

On Wednesday night, me and a number of other Vancouver Public Space Network volunteers put into action the feeling we wanted to nurture: support for the city’s graciousness in making this trial a success, and to bolster positivity around creating a better travelling environment for both cyclists and pedestrians.