Location: The Workers Club, corner Brunswick & Gertrude Sts, Fitzroy
Date: Wednesday 18 April, doors open 6:30pm
Theme: Are you Serious?
here studio is very excited to bring you our first volume of Pecha Kucha for 2012!
Are you serious? Well, are you? Is it possible we’re taking things and ourselves a little too seriously these days?
The Comedy Festival hits Melbourne in April and we want to make you laugh…or at least make you think. Yes, life has a serious side and many of us design with it every day, but how about taking a step back for a moment?
What do you take seriously? What shouldn’t we take so seriously? What needs an injection of un-serious?
Seriously!?!
Speakers include:
Anna Blandford, Able & Game
Megg Evans, Brolly Design & Bennetts Lane Jazz Club
Mark O’Dwyer, H2O Architects
David Naylor, comedian and facilitator
Oslo Davis, cartoonist and illustrator
Peter Raisbeck, The University of Melbourne
Jade Cantwell & Angela Woda, Beate Adfectus
Peter Ho, PHOOEY Architects
here studio is very excited to bring you this special volume of Pecha Kucha as part of the opening night of the State of Design Festival.
Design that moves? Think putting on the brakes, think pause and stop, taking a break, think crashing, smashing, breaking, think broken, think going for broke. Design starts when we stop.
Speakers include:
Nicklas Wallberg, Tramsessions
Sarah Barrow & Michelle Gordon, artists
Jeremy McLeod, Breathe Architecture
Michael Leunig, cartoonist, philosopher, poet, artist
Danielle Wilde, inventor of hipDisk
Liam Revell, fashion designer
Ben Callery, Zen Architects
Jerome Frumar & Tim Schork, MESNE Design Studio
Thank you to all of you for attending Pecha Kucha Volume #17 on Thursday 28 April 2011.
We teamed up with Antony di Mase (architect) and Dave Anderson (lighting designer) and asked speakers to answer a simple question: ‘what is light?’ Each of the speakers had something different to share – whether it be about artificial or daylighting in architecture, stage lighting, or capturing light through photography.
This very special volume of Pecha Kucha Night was located in an amazing basement space in Donkey Wheel House. We also collaborated with the organisers of an exhibition which was held in the same space at the same time – over fifty child+parent teams had made lamps out of recycled materials! There was a beautiful glow to the space and was most definitely inspiring!
Here are some photos of the night, by photographers Claire Miller and Neo Feliciano:
Location: Donkey Wheel House – basement, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne
Thursday 28 April, doors open 6.00pm
What is Light?
here studio is teaming up with Antony Di Mase and Dave Anderson to bring you this very special volume of Pecha Kucha Light.
As part of the global Pecha Kucha ‘Inspire Japan’ series, all proceeds will go to Architecture for Humanity for projects in Japan, Christchurch, Concepcion, and Haiti.
Speakers:
David Poulton, studio dp
Volker Haug, luminaire designer
Stephen Hennessy, Stephen Hennessy Art & Design
Paul Beale, Electrolight
Nicola Andrews, stage lighting designer
Steve Wright, Light Well Design
Stefan Preuss, Sustainability Victoria
Adele Locke, IES The Lighting Society
David Becker, Point of View
Kire Boegevski, 2B Designed
Matt Irwin, Matt Irwin Photography
From fashion based in cultural traditions and visual art, to illustration and sustainability, the night will inspire creatives with fresh ideas and emerging trends.
For our first, guest-hosted PechaKucha we are very pleased to introduce MiFA (Melbourne International Fine Art) www.mifa.com.au
MiFA is a new platform for contemporary art in Australia. This modern, contemporary space hosts internationally acclaimed artists from the Asia Pacific, displaying work from China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and India in a variety of disciplines. MiFA aims to bridge the gap between Australia and its neighbours providing new avenues for collaboration, discussion, networks and links.
For the first PechaKucha Night at MiFA we discuss the ties that pull Australia towards Asia and vice versa
Confirmed speakers (so far): Richie Khoo // Carpets for Communities
Pia Johnson // Artist Trevor Fleming // Lesley Kehoe Galleries
Paul Andrews // Train Traveller Chris Mitchell // Blogger – The Eurasian Sensation Sarah Bond // Asialink, Director of Visual Arts
Anna Johnson // Architecture and Design, RMIT
Rey Tiquia // Traditional Chinese Medicine
+MORE TO COME…
Tickets $10 / $5 Concession, drinks available at the bar.
Limited tickets / please book online here to avoid missing out! Or call +61.9663.3304
info [at] mifa [dot] com [dot] au
info [at] pechakuchamelbourne [dot] com
Pecha Kucha Melbourne vol. 14 will take place in the middle of National Architecture Week on the evening of Wednesday 27 October!
This time, speakers take the PK stage to explore the place of architecture in your city, your neighbourhood and your home.
Beyond all aesthetic, technical and financial aspects of the professional responsibilities, the major concern [for architects]. . . is the social commitment of the profession . . . as well as the improvement of the quality of life through sustainable human settlements. (UNESCO/Union of International Architects Charter).
Yet, in Australia, the apparent contribution of architects to society is small, with only a tiny fraction of housing (an estimated 5% or less) being designed by architects, and a broad perception that architectural design is out of reach to all but a wealthy few. But is there more to the role than meets the eye?
The reality is that design is part of all our lives – from the car that gets you from A to B, to the fork you use to eat your lunch. Most of us wouldn’t put up with products that don’t do what they’re supposed to, so what makes us prepared to invest in a house that gets too hot in summer and costs a bomb to heat in winter? There are architects working in unexpected ways to improve our quality of life – through innovation in environmental sustainability, community advocacy and collaboration. Meanwhile, the increasing pressures of housing affordability and climate change call for radical changes in our built environment, so just what CAN architecture contribute?
The next Pecha Kucha Melbourne night will be held on Wednesday 18 August 2010 at the Order of Melbourne (Level 2, 401 Swanston St).
Pecha Kucha vol. 13 finds Melbourne in the midst of federal election fever. As leaders jostle to turn the spotlight on vote-winning issues, do you ever get the feeling that something is being ignored? Is it just too hard to address the elephant in the room?
What’s your elephant in the room and how are you designing with/around it?
Featuring:
Naomi Bishops & Richard Raber (Traces Films)
Jenny Davies (author of “Beyond the Facade: Flinders St”)
Simon Griffiths (Shebeen)
Ceri Hann (RMIT Public Art)
Martyn Hook (RMIT/iredale pedersen hook),
Andrew Maynard (Andrew Maynard Architects)
Mark McQuilten (Architectus)
Hannah Robertson (University of Melbourne/Six Degrees)
Rebecca Scott (STREAT)
Johan van Schaik (Minifie Nixon)
Tim Whitefield (Whitefield McQueen Irwin Alsop)
