The list of speakers who will present at a Pecha Kucha Night as part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Forum 2017 has been released.
Speakers at the event on 22 March will include architects Richard Coulson (Cox Architects), Aaron Peters (Vokes and Peters) and Timothy Hill (Partners Hill), as well as Niini Mendonca and Kali Marnane, who worked to design and build “anganwadi,” or pre-schools, in the slum areas of Ahmedabad, India.
Pecha Kucha, which is a transliteration of the Japanese phrase for chitchat, is a presentation format where a speaker presents 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically as the speaker talks along to them.
Pecha Kucha nights were an invention of architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo practice Klein Dytham Architects. The first Pecha Kucha night was held in 2003 at SuperDeluxe, Klein and Dytham’s multipurpose “thinking and drinking” space in the Roppongi area of Tokyo. PechaKucha nights are now held in more than 900 cities worldwide.
Klein and Dytham have said that they came up with the Pecha Kucha method as a way of forcing architects, who they considered to be too verbose and long-winded, to be concise.
The full list of speakers
- Richard Coulson, architect, Cox Architecture
- Janina Gosseye, research fellow, University of Queensland School of Architecture
- Timothy Hill, architect, Partners Hill
- Matthew Haynes, digital designer, Analogue Digital
- Niini Mendonca and Kali Marnane, Anganwadi Project
- Samuel Mayze, Urban Art Projects
- Aaron Peters, architect, Vokes and Peters
Pecha Kucha Night Brisbane will take place at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 22 March as part of the Asia Pacific Architecture Forum 2017. Admittance is free and no bookings are required. More information is available here.
