I’ve got a little bit of Hong Kong and China on the brain right now: I discovered skimming feeds in my reader today that Metro Babel posted a four-part series reviewing a previous SFU City lecture on heritage building preservation in that-other-city-in-my-heart, Hong Kong. (Part 1, 2, 3, 4 and a round-up of conservation practices [...]
Sometime when I was in high school – it completely eludes me as to precisely when – I was shown a video about gangs. It looked like it had been made in the early ’90s, and it told the story of a young man who was having trouble connecting and fitting in at school, who [...]
ChangeCamp is about what we can do when we are motivated to make change to improve the lives of others and hence our collective wellbeing, through empowering them in their capacity to help themselves. In the spirit of this, I am taking up the cause of a project very close to home for me – [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Ideas, Unconferences
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After a good few days of deliberating (and checking my bank account balance), it is now official: I’m going to ChangeCamp in Toronto! The event is an unconference (as you might guess from the “camp” designation), and, from the official description… [...] is a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, [...]
Just a quick note that I’ll be doing a quick, five minute presentation to contributors and general fans of Re:place Magazine tonight. The event is happening at The End Cafe on Broadway at 7pm at their Re:connect event. (Short notice, I know.) The event is free though they are asking people to RSVP to get [...]
