I don’t think I’ve written about Pecha Kucha before. I came across it from a presentation uploaded by Jan Chipchase, a Nokia ethnographer (beautiful blog, btw) who had done a presentation in Tokyo.
The presentation format is deliberately simple and constrained – 20 slides, 20 seconds each. On anything you like. Adopted as the cool du jour by architects and designers, they’ve taken off world-wide…with the copyright(!) owned by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in Tokyo.
I keep missing the London ones in the ICA, and so I’m going to see if I can setup a Pecha Kucha night in Manchester.
I think the format would also provide some much needed restraint in corporate environments as an educational exercise. That and Tufte’s pamphlet.