Pecha-Kucha

I attend the Pecha-Kucha event in Shanghai hosted by the Dutch Culture Center. For those of you who don't know what Pecha-Kucha is, (I didn't know until the day of the event) here is a quote from their website.

"PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace."

The format works quite well. It prevents presenters from being too wordy, or the audience from falling asleep from a boring lecturer. Unless they are all boring, which luckily didn't happen this time. There are some presentations That I want to delve deeper into, but for this post, I will run down my notes from the night. It was dark and I had to scribble blind, but I think I got some pretty good notes down.