
Pecha Kucha Montreal 2007 Photo by JamesEverett via Flickr
Pecha Kucha nights were started in 2003 by Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein in Tokyo. The nights are aimed at young designers, the format teaches a lot to all of us engaged with boring presentations.
Pecha Kucha means chit-chat. Back in 2003 two architects started what is now a very popular movement, with nights all over the globe.
Why?
The format answers to a compelling question, how to give space to young designers without throwing the audience in 2 hours long, endless presentations.
How?
Mark and Astrid created the 20 presenters/20 slides/20 seconds format.
20 designer are given the chance to present a total of 20 slides, 20 seconds each, for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
As simple as that.
Results
An immediate result is that attention levels are kept very high and everyone involved gets value out of the experience.
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