by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Ideas, Technology
| tagged as james howard kunstler, northern voice, nv10, planningpool, the thunderbird, urban planning, vancouver public space network
At this year’s Northern Voice, I was grateful to have been given the chance to moderate a panel, titled, “From Tweets to Plans: Online Conversations for Urban Planning.” I’d gotten the idea to do it from being invited to the SCARP Symposium by PlanningPool, where I found myself talking about blogging to urban planners, and [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Scholarship, Technology
| tagged as citizen science, cycletracks, digital media, everyblock, open data, resilience, social media, urban planning
Some reflections and thoughts on my presentation on “Planning in the Age of Participation,” my presentation at the 2010 SCARP Symposium on Resilience.
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Scholarship, Technology
| tagged as canadian association of planning students, caps conference, guelph, public participation, rural planning, tower revitalization, university of guelph, urban planning
Phewf! Between all the running around with the start of the second semester of school, the first month of the year is already week-old history, and I’ve just wrapped up one of the major milestones for this year: the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS-ACEAU) annual conference at the University of Guelph, hosted by students of [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Ideas, Scholarship
| tagged as commitments, conferences, goals, horizon, intentions, life, personal development, personal growth, personal productivity, planning, reflection, social, urban planning, work
2009 has gone and 2010 has come. Good time to collect my reflections on the high and low points, for travel, career, health, projects, skills, all setting the stage for what’s on the horizon for 2010.
As part of UBC SCARP’s recent student-organized symposium, I got the chance to attend a Co-Design Workshop Demonstration by Stanley King and his group based on a hypothetical UBC Campus Life scenario. (Thanks to all the volunteer SCARP students for shepherding the logistics on the day – great job!)
Not being previously familiar with the work [...]
The job title for what I want to do, I’m coming to realize, will probably have to be one I make up myself.
This week, I had back-to-back coffee dates with two people who have both been wonderfully supportive of Transit Camp and the stuff I’ve been doing, be it academically, professionally in other ways or [...]
