A few days ago, an upcoming unconference known as TransportCamp came across my radar. It’s being organized by The Car Co-op (perhaps better known as the Co-operative Auto Network), and has a number of sponsors, such as VanCity, TransLink, The Cooperators (the insurance company), and BCAA. There is a $25 admission fee, and it’s happening [...]
Guest post from Richard Eriksson discussing his thoughts on the future of rail infrastructure in Vancouver.
Yesterday, Richard and I were fortunate enough to get a sneak-peek at the new Mark II SkyTrains – Mark II version 2.0, if you will, where Mark II version 1.0 are those curvy white trains that made their debut with the Millenium Line. The new ones have similar colouring both on the inside and the [...]
Thunder and lightning, very, very frightening!
The issue of photography in transit is raising its ugly head again as the transit police (partially funded by the Federal Government, judging by the livery) have stuck ads in transit asking people to report “suspicious” behaviour and illustrate that with people taking pictures of security cameras!
What can I [...]
The idea of public rapid iterative design on myself is very tempting. It basically looks like this:
State what you think you’re about.
Do something that changes your mind.
State how this has changed what you think you’re about.
Do it again.
I watched one of my favorite people in the world do it over the course of a year, [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Counting Machines, Flotsam and Jetsam, dot-star-camp
| tagged as buskers, car-free days, community, competition, contest, culture, handimobility, metro vancouver, online video, performance artists, public transit, public transportation, street life, street musicians, strutta, translink, walkable cities
“Busker Idol,” you ask?
Yes. Busker Idol. (!!!)
Busker Idol is my working title / codename for an idea I’ve had for at least two years, that I’ve started to flesh out and test a little more earnestly in the past little while.
Where did this come from?
The basic idea is the intersection of me asking the following [...]
It’s been an interesting week of random transit-ry, and there’s still a day and a half left.
I had a really bad Tuesday – there’s a story, but this unpleasant experience meant I rode transit for about three hours that day, and I managed to pay forward two happy incidents: I chatted up someone new to [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Counting Machines, dot-star-camp
| tagged as blogging, co-operation, co-optation, communities, public, public engagement, skytrain, skytrain unconference, translink
The last three weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of activity, new things happening at a terrifying pace that has left me with little time for much of anything. But the only way out of this big backlog of blogging is to start somewhere, so I will start with the most important.
My biggest project from [...]
