pecha kucha night: creative people talking about creative things
The Pecha Kucha website explains it better than we can:
Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.
Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor.
Indeed, you can view photos, learn about architecture, hear an artist discuss her work, and meet a lot of interesting people at Pecha Kucha Nights worldwide. And if your city isn’t one of the many listed on the site, contact the organizers about starting your own. It reminds us a bit of the combination of fun, learning and networking you can find at events like The Lab — and we are all for more opportunities to do all three.
