Tag Archives: sustainability

A little more about #myresearch

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Scholarship | tagged as , , , ,

#myresearch looks at how planning orgs have used & understand Twitter for public engagement on sustainability issues. Here’s a little more on what that research is looking at, why I chose Twitter, and what I hope to get out of this research.

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Complexifiers and Simplifiers: some necessary nuance

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas | tagged as , , ,

Scott Berkun writes that there are two kinds of people in the world: simplifiers and complexifiers. Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Their instincts are to turn simple assignments into quagmires, and to reject simple ideas until they’re buried (or asphyxiated) in layers of abstraction. […] They take pride in consuming more bandwidth, time, and patience […]

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What Open Data Changes: Sustainability and Knowledge Creation

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , , ,

In May, I spoke to Vancouver City Council in support of the motion on open data. One of my beliefs that I stated at that presentation, and which I still believe, is that open data creates the possibility of citizens being able to have conversations based on fact. With the challenges of peak oil and […]

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On attempting to de-stuff

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas | tagged as , , , ,

We recently moved – him from his apartment of five years, me from the latest in my string of less-than-a-year stints in rented apartments or houses with roommates or parents. Packing was a revelation – did I really have all that in that 400-square foot room of mine? It was mostly in boxes for the […]

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