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Started in Tokyo in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture (KDa) as a place for young design-ers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

The format: 20 seconds x 20 slides. Each presenter is allowed a slideshow of 20 images each shown, for 20 seconds each. Result is 6 minutes and 40 seconds on stage.

Today PKN occurs in 290 cites globally.

Well know presenters include:

Jun Aoki, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas’ daughter, designers such as Tom Dixon, Ron Arad, Thomas Heatherwick, comedian Johnny Vegas, actress Joanna Lumley and BBC newscaster Jon Snow. Even Astrid Klein’s 5 year old daughter Nanami and Mark Dytham’s mother Angela have done presentations in the 20x20 format

FROM TOKYO TO BERN, LOS ANGELES, A Coruña, Aalen, Aarhus, Adelaide, Aguascalientes, Amersfoort, Amman, Amsterdam, Asheville, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Austin, Bahia Blanca, Bah-rain, Bali, Bandung, Bangalore, Bangkok, Barcelona, Basel, Beaufort SC, Beijing, Beirut, Belfast, Bel-grade, Berkeley, Berlin, Bern, Bielefeld, Bilbao, Bogota, Bordeaux, Boston, Boulder, Bratislava, Brigh-ton, Brisbane, Bristol, Brno, Brussels, Bucaramanga, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Calgary, Cali, Canberra, Cape Town, Caracas, Cardiff, Catania, Champaign-Urbana, Charleston, Charlotte, Chat-tanooga, Chennai, Chicago, Christchurch, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Cologne, Columbia, SC, Columbus, Concepción, Copenhagen, Cordoba, Dallas, Damascus, Dawson City, Dayton, Delhi, Denver, De-troit, Doha, Dortmund, Dresden, Dubai, Dublin, Dunedin, Durban, Edinburgh, Edmonton, Eind-hoven, El Paso, Eugene, Ferrol, Florence, Frankfurt, Fresno, Gdansk, Ghent, Gisborne, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Greenville, Groningen, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Guayaquil, Halifax, Hamamatsu, Hamburg, Hamilton, Helsinki, Hengelo, Hobart, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Houston, Huancayo, India-napolis, Istanbul, Jacksonville, Jaen, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kaiserslautern, Kalmar, Kampala, Kansas City, Kaunas, Kolding, Kosice, Krakow, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lake Ridge, Las Palmas GC, Lausanne, Leeds, Lexington, Lima, Lincoln, NE, Linz, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Loviisa, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Madrid, Málaga, Mallorca, Malmö, Man-chester, Manila, Mar Del Plata, Marseille-Provence, Mauritius, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Milwaukee, Minneapolis St.Paul, Montevideo, Montreal, Morioka, Muenster, Mumbai, Munich, Nagano, Nagoya, Nairobi, Nancy, Naples, Nashville, Nelson, New Haven, New Orleans, New York, Newcastle, Nishinomiya, Norrköping, Oaxaca, Okayama, Omaha, Orange County, Oslo, Osnabrueck, Ottawa, Oulu, Palmerston North, Panamá, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pitts-boro, Pittsburgh, Pontevedra, Pordenone, Portland Maine, Portland Oregon, Porto, Porto Alegre, Portsmouth NH, Poznan, Prague, Providence, Pune, Quebec, Queretaro, Raglan, Raleigh, Redding, Regensburg, Reykjavik, Riga, Rijeka, Rimini, Rockland, Maine, Rome, Rosario, Rotterdam, Sacra-mento, Saint-Etienne, Salisbury, Salt Lake City, Salzburg, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, CA, San Jose, Costa Rica, San Luis Obispo, San Sebastian, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Savannah, Schiedam, Se-attle, Seoul, Sevilla, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sofia, Sophia Antipolis, Southend-on-Sea, St Louis, St.Petersburg, Stockholm, Stoke-on-Trent, Stuttgart, Sundsvall, Sunshine Coast, Surabaya, Sydney, Tacoma, Taipei, Tallahassee, Tampa Bay, Tampere, Tel Aviv, Tenerife, The Hague, Tijuana, Tokyo, Toledo, Ohio, Toronto, Treviso, Trieste, Tromsø, Turin, Turku, Udine, Umeå, Utrecht, Vaduz, Valencia, Vancouver, Växjö, Venice, Victoria, Vienna, Vilnius, Wagga Wagga, Warsaw, Washington DC, Waterloo, Wellington, Whangarei, Whistler, Whitehorse, Winnipeg, Worcester, Wroclaw,

in 290 cities and counting...

The leveling experienceIf everyone has the same tools to play with, it is

revealing how differently people can use them. It is

an extremely leveling experience to see a student

next to a star designer, having the exact same

parameters to work within.

PKN works because it is simple and people know

what to expect: twenty slides in 6 minutes and 40

seconds. This format makes it clear that it is up to

the presenter to turn this short slot into a memo-

rable experience.

IT EQUALIZES YOUNG AND OLD,

STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS,

AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS,

CREATING A PLAYING FIELD THAT IS

EGALITARIAN AS IT IS EXCITING!!

Q&AThere is no official Q&A at Pecha Kucha Night.

Instead the debates happen throughout the entire evening where the audi-

ence mingles with the presenters, so the opportunity for actual dialogue is

much longer. The casual atmosphere of the room makes it easy to

drop all formal barriers and socialize naturally. There are

chances to walk up to any presenters during the break

or at the end of the night to say “Awesome,

really like your work”

CALL FOR PRESENTERSOur first Pecha-kucha night is scheduled for the 1th 15th of

MAY. We invite artists, architects, art critics, designers,

poets, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, collectors,

academicians, students and enthusiasts to present and

share your work, ideas, stories, impressions, fantasies, in

precisely the 20X20 format – 20 images, with each image

precisely for 20 seconds on the screen! That makes it 6

minutes and 40 seconds for each presenter.

If you wish to present write to us with a 3-line note on what

you wish to present by the 25th of this April, and we will be

happy to register you as a presenter. The issue, content and

subject of presentation is open to your choice and concern.

www.pecha-kucha.org/night/chennai

If you wish to join us for the event as a part of the

audience, please join our facebook group or mail us at

pechakucha.maa@gmail.com

We look forward to your enthusiastic participation...

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERSFrom Poster designs to ticket stubs to location setup to

DJ’s to spin some tunes. We are looking for people who

can help us make PKN a great night.

Know of a great location which would be great for PKN,

someone who would like to present; If you’d like to help us

organize or help sponsor PKN Chennai, please get in

touch with us, to create a interesting night of exchange of

ideas and contents.

Thanks

Jim Nagae

skinnyzebra

If you wish to join us for the event as a part of the

audience, please join our facebook group or mail us at

pechakucha.maa@gmail.com

We look forward to your enthusiastic participation...

KLEIN DYTHAM

chennai

TM