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Recently I attended Pecha Kucha at Downstage Gallery in Wellington, this is a global discussion which I have tried to get to whenever it’s on. Always worth the effort and always in great venues.
While each presentation offered something different I found a few which particularly fascinated me. Ralph Johns, a Wellington landscape architect, discussed some projects he had worked on around the waterfront redevelopment along Wellington Harbour near Wagamama and the Meridian Energy building. His slides presented the approach to the design and concept for the two works.
The other work on the National War Memorial had some great slides showing the process from sketches and ideas through to the finished architectural plans. The concept of a blanket draped over the land and some of the metaphors that flowed from that single idea, had been carried through to the plans presented as a birds-eye perspective. The visual suggestion of a giant grass and concrete blanket covering all displayed a rich and sensitive concept that I feel really added a symbolic message to such an important and national landmark.
Downstage was a great venue for it and it is almost a shame that Pecha Kucha moves around each time, as Downstage really lent itself to the event. There was a large state-of-the-art screen, thanks to the show that is on there at the moment.
The best speakers were the ones that offered the audience something to think about and didn’t use the 6 minutes 40 as a blatant advertisement for their newest endeavour. That being said, Pecha Kucha is a great platform to get people interested and involved in projects and for networking.
