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Pecha Kucha Presentations

What is Pecha Kucha ????

Pecha Kucha is the Japanese term for the sound of conversation (“chit chat” – can be pronounced peh-chak-cha) It was conceived in Tokyo, back in 2003. by designers Astrid Klein andMark Dytham.

Their original goal was to create a space where designers could share their ideas/passions with others.

However, knowing how dangerous it is to give a designer a microphone… they decided to put some checks in place. In order to prevent speakers from droning on and on, the Pecha Kucha format has restrictions:

20 slides, on display for 20 seconds

Because of this constraint every single Pecha Kucha presentation, regardless of speaker or topic, is exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds in length

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaCLWaZLI4

Spiral Training

http://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/space-tourism-hospitality-or-adventure-industry

Tourism and Hospitality and the Space Industry

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/pecha-kucha-presentations-with-google-apps-fast-and-to-the-point/1238/Google App

• First used PK this academic year in Dynamics of Tourism – as a student debate.

• Extremely positive feedback from students as a student experience.

• Like myself, main challenge was limiting text to 20 seconds. Trying to avoid words and just images is the art of the presentation.

• Example – debate on Digital Detox• Is the Digital Detox product just a clever

marketing strategy or just the revamping of an already established ‘wellness’ tourism product?

Possibilities for use of PK at UCB - Dissertation proposals?

Social Purposes:PK nights are held globally in 700 cities. Anything can be presented!!

Many examples on line – some quite obscure and also thought provoking!

Employment applications?

http://international.science.strath.ac.uk/2014/02/developing-a-global-mindset-the-first-in-a-pecha-kucha-style-series-of-talks-followed-by-informal-networking/

http://www.manchester-chamber.org/programs-events/pechakucha/