PechaKucha (roughly translated as chit-chat) is a format for sharing ideas, and PechaKucha Nights are evenings dedicated to idea-sharing. Like an open-mike poetry slam without the cringeing.
www.pecha-kucha.org
20 slides times 20 seconds - that's the structure, and as an ideas-excursion it's a wonderful head-blitz.
The creative stages of branding can be playful skips over stepping-stones, taking our thoughts as close to the waterfall of taboo as we dare. The stepping stones are only there when we collect ideas and then lob them into the stream of consciousness, for our minds to leap to, when the time is right. (that should've come with an extended-metaphor alert, sorry).
In a recent PechaKucha Night at Science Oxford, we heard from a guy who was nuts about rollercoasters and mechanical engineering and who needed no help to perform enthusiastic somersaults as he showed us his world of loop-the-loops. And we heard from this guy
www.james-king.net
a Speculative Designer, who, as well as taking science to the Secret Garden Party Festival - shoed us his 'Scatalog' and told us how colour-reactive e.coli bacteria could one-day help us discern our health from the pantone-chart examination of our poo.
Chit-Chat, Hop-Skip, stepping stones. Dunno when I'll need to lob these, but my ideas-rucksack is a little heavier.
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