Forget Twitter - Try Pecha Kucha

The next NY Pecha Kucha night is on Monday, March 23 -- and among the participants is Dickson Despommier of the Vertical Farm Project, pictured here.

What is Pecha Kucha?  The phrase means "the sound of conversation," and in this case a dozen or so creative professionals will present 20 slides for 20 seconds each on whatever topic they like.

The March 23 participants, aside from Despommier, include environmentalists, multimedia artist DJ Spooky, design blogger Tina Roth Eisenberg, and many others.

Check it out.  Doors open 6:30PM at Le Poisson Rouge, live music by the Sam Barsh Band, and speakers at 8:30. These are quarterly events that SHOULD be taking place all over the country, with lots more landscape architects and designers.

My original post on Vertical Farm is here.

(image: Vertical Farm Project)

Comments

[Scott Murison]

Hi Jane,
I like the Pecha Kucha idea, after all life is bigger than landscape design and gardening yet its scope excites our work.

I am from Adelaide Australia, a hot dry conservative place which stretches ones' resources and inner life.

My focus as a garden designer is discovering the client as the garden and using some understanding of their lives as springboards for an imaginative response to their needs. You may know of Immanuel Kant who said so beautifully that aesthetic pleasure was derived from the free play between our understanding and imagination. I am pushing for authenticity in aesthetics, discovering our deepest possibility in the world. I should say that at the moment not many seem interested.

Regards,

Scott Murison
Garden Studio
PH: 0400 260 004

[Garden Sheds]

I have been to one of these. They are a great night.