You are invited to the 8th Pecha Kucha Night in Brussels.
The concept: each speaker has 6 minutes 40 sec. for a presentation in 20 images. Each image is on screen for only 20 seconds. No more, no less.
20 images x 20 seconds each. Tempo, story, tension, show-and-tell.
PKN 08 is an event listed in the 2009 European Year of Creativity and Innovation.
Speakers foreseen on May 14th, 2009 are
_ Isabel Biver - Brussels disappearing cinema venues
_ Eric Boschman - cuisine stories
_ Philippe Claeys - Earth Sciences VUB
_ Axel Cleeremans - neuro-psychology, ULB - Consciousness, Cognition & Computation
_ Jan Coenen - a20 architects
_ Benoît Drouillat, Dominique Playoust - Pecha Kucha Paris and Designers Interactifs
_ Naemia - style and fashion / photos by Ahmed Bahhodh
_ Victor Levy - architect, photographer, professor La Cambre Archi and Victor Horta
_ Joëlle Liberman - Egerie Research, trends and qualitative research
_ Pierre Portevin - C-Bridge, collective intelligence
_ Geoffroy Simon - getyoo, RFID and social networking
_ Frank Theys - artist
_ Eric Tirlo - Kin-Ball sport
_ Olivier Verbeke - microplaza, knowledgeplaza, social media
_ Maarten Vandenbroucke - unmanned aircraft systems, aerial images
_ Isabelle Wéry - comédienne
_ Théâtre de la Vie - slam stories
and a special appearance by
_ St-Lucas Design School students w/ Annelies Vaneycken - "Accents" workshop
Pecha Kucha, which is Japanese for the sound of conversation (bla bla), is a series of show-and-tell evenings for designers, architects, artists and creatives, started by Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo in
2003 and now in 172 cities worldwide. The Brussels edition is launched and organised by Alok Nandi, Architempo, as part of {creativity*conversation}. It attracts a wide audience. The 5th Pecha Kucha Brussels took place at Recyclart,
on Sept. 20 at 20:20, in connection with the Design September programme. The 6th Pecha Kucha Night took place at Ancienne Belgique. The 7th at "bip".
Pecha Kucha Brussels Vol.08
14th May 2009, at 20:20
We recommend that you arrive half an hour early.
