Design in 6 Minutes and 40 Seconds
And now for something completely different …
It’s been a while since I’ve just blogged something for the sake of being an on-the-spot blogger. Tonight’s blog group is visiting Pecha Kucha Night Boston #4, hosted by group member Brett Stilwell. The idea is that we geeky types will live blog, Twitter, photograph, film, and otherwise record the presentations as they happen. Pecha Kucha gives presenters 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide (that’s 400 seconds=6 minutes and 40 seconds) to give a presentation. The format could work well for SLA, perhaps.
The first fellow told us about a gallery in South Boston and the upcoming artificial intelligence conference in Boston. The second fellow wasted precious seconds by warning us that he’s likely to go over, then launched into a talk about ancient buildings and landscape in Mexico and New Jersey sprawl. The first woman told us about projects involving slums, seeking to understand how they work architecturally, and how to change them. She shared some photos of South American slums that made me really appreciate my home. The second woman brought us some amusement because she was having problems keeping up with her slides advancing every 20 seconds. She talked about urban mobility issues. The next man described designing a musem in Greece that integrates with the landscape as well as what’s inside. A woman who will do her dissertation defense in a few days introduced us to a museum she designed in China.
