The 3rd Edition of PECHA KUCHA Maastricht visits Aachen was a great success!
Thanks to its leading RWTH technical university, Aachen is a center of innovation. That includes re-usage of materials, conversion of existing buildings and switching functionalities. Such as churches!
This makes switching (oder: “Umnutzung”) a perfect theme for a PechaKucha Night in a church!
In 2003 architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (www.Klein-Dytham.com) organized a first PechaKucha evening in order to exchange ideas in Tokyo. In July 2012, they organized their 94th PechaKucha Night. PechaKucha (Japanese for chit-chat) is based on the belief that you don’t need lots of time to explain a good idea. PechaKucha enables you to spread ideas with 20 slides, 20 seconds each. Your goal, explaining the essence of a new idea, building, concept or method, takes only 6 minutes and 40 seconds. In an informal and inspiring atmosphere.
PechaKucha works already for more than 543 cities worldwide, in spite of the tight lines of 20 slides of 20 seconds each. Please visit the international PechaKucha website and register for the newsletter: www.pecha-kucha.org
In Aachen it works as a cooperation projekt between designmetropole aachen and the City of Aachen´s Department for Business Development and European Affairs. Moderation: Patricia Yasmine Graf & Fabian Seibert.
With special thanks to our partners from PechaKucha Foundation Maastricht.
Pictures by Philip Driessen.
