Shaun, So, are you thinking of having an ixd-oriented Pecha Kucha? we've considered doing this in Portland Maine - would like to hear how it turns out if that's your approach.
http://www.pechakuchaportland.org/portland/portland_events.html - Susan On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Shaun Bergmann <[email protected]>wrote: > here's what I've come up with. > > Comments? > > *Finally, Pecha Kucha Vancouver has announced their next event! Thursday, > March 26th at the historic Park Theatre on Cambie St. > > The event starts at 7:00, but let's meet up before-hand at the Kino Cafe at > 6:00 to amass. > > The Kino Cafe is almost next door: > 3456 Cambie Street > (604) 875-1998 > www.kinocafe.ca/ > > > For those not familiar with Pecha Kucha; trusty Wikipedia states the > following: > > "Pecha Kucha (ÚÁã¯Áã?) or Pecha Kucha Night is a presentation format in > which (mostly creative) work can be easily, efficiently and informally > shown. It was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham > Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, > network, and show their work in public. The format has spread virally to > many cities across the world. > > Pecha Kucha (usually pronounced in three syllables like "peh-chak-cha") > derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation ("chit-chat"). > > It was started in February 2003 by Klein and Dytham to attract people to > SuperDeluxe, their multi-media experimental event space they had set up in > Roppongi.[1] The idea is to keep presentations concise, the interest level > up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one > night. Therefore, the 20x20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter > is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. This > results > in a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds on a stage before the > next presenter is up. Each event usually has 14 presenters. Presenters (and > much of the audience) are usually from the design, architecture, > photography, art and creative fields, but recently it has also stretched > over to academia and the business world." > > More info here: > http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/vancouver* > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Reply to this thread at ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39157 > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
