PechaKucha Night is back!

27 Jan 2006 Category: Architecture, Events & Exhibitions, Fashion, Features, Japan, Products, Worldwide

After a cozy winter-holiday SuperDeluxe is back with PechaKucha Night Vol. 29! Twenty-nine!!!

written by Uleshka

In case the word “PechaKucha” still doesn’t make any sense to you: it is a monthly event held at Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. Everyone can send in 20 slides to KleinDytham Architects in order to present their work, ideas or even holiday pictures at the next scheduled event. Caution: each slide will be shown for 20 seconds, no matter how much or how little you have to say.

“Now that’s another quirky event for Tokyoties only!”, is what you might think!? But listen up: after establishing PechaKucha in London and Glasgow already, I sneakily overheard Astrid and Mark’s plans to start a New York and Sweden version very soon!

So - you better watch out! It might happen close to you before you know it, and maybe you will even be the next one to give it a try: feel the rush of the slides ticking through and indulge in the joy of finally saying what you always wanted - to a proper audience!

Yesterday’s line up of presenters was just fan-tas-tic, so no wonder everyone was squeezing in to hear them speak.

Here are my personal highlights of the evening in order of appearance:

Jan Chipchase(UK) is a hard-core researcher for Nokia, traveling the world about 3/4 of the year, accompanying people to work, watching them eat, sleep, meeting their friends…. watching every step of their lives for a limited period of time to find out: what items of all their possessions they use everyday, and in which particular way. Why? Because Nokia wants to know, what we actually need and how they can design things in a more useful and productive way.

Keisuke Toyoda(JP) from SHoP Architects New York presented amazing architecture projects: two independent complexes for Beijing, one in the North and one in the South of the city.

Another highlight was an interior design system they created for Virgin: shapes punched out of a plastic plate easily combined with stacking elements enabling pretty much anybody to build the whole shop interior! Beautiful!

Next presenter was Dave Anderson(US), an impressive photographer. His images showed hard, industrial and urban motifs with not one person to be seen. However, he somehow managed to make his work feel very human - as if the sounds of people working, talking or driving past were captured in the very moment he pressed the shutter.

Finding a picture within the picture, zooming in and out of the motif, the frame, the location and even beyond - to then realize where one is standing while experiencing the whole scene: this is what Dave Anderson’s photographs enable and encourage us to do. Very inspiring!

Yoshikazu Yamagata(JP) struck me with a very fresh and artistic approach towards design and fashion. He showed illustrations, objects and conceptual wear (e.g. gigantic underwear carried away by children). I was touched by his ideas! Can you imagine: he made carved wooden clogs with included air-cushions and a huge swirly swoosh on each side?!! Who could he be making fun of??? Wow - I love him!

But I think I love his brother, too! Fukaura Tomoshige(JP) carried on, using his brother’s illustration for an invite to his final fashion show at Central St. Martin’s, London. What a quirky fashion show that was! Featuring big dolls stuffed with kids acting as “The emperor’s new clothes” - or as he called it: “The everyone’s new clothes”. He even created two dolls acting as Alexander McQueen and fashion critic Hilary - sitting right next to themselves.

Fukaura has a fashion show coming up this Saturday at Hinohara in West-Tokyo. That seems worth checking out!

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