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From Chicago’s event during last month’s “Global PechaKucha Night for Haiti” comes “Burial,” a presentation by John Ronan.
Many people came out to support PechaKucha for Haiti and gave very special glimpses into things that interest them. One of the only things that is certain in life is it’s closure. A fascinating look at burial rituals around the world.
Today we start with a presentation taken from PechaKucha Night in San Francisco Vol. 37, with architect David Fletcher and his “Devouring Architecture” tour of 9 competitions (with a bonus). You can find more presentations from PKN San Francisco by visiting the official city page, or go directly to the San Francisco section of the site’s “Presentations” area.
A special edition PechaKucha Night in Miami is set to feature the LegalArt Six artist residency, taking place at the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation on March 25 (18:00-20:00). We’re including the full press release for more details, as well as the list of participating — and presenting — artists.
Last October’s PechaKucha in Tenerife Vol. 2 was held in conjunction with the Tenerife Design Festival, and organizer Yapci Ramos has just sent us a link to this video that covers the festival and the PKN event.
Our second presentation from Phoenix’s “Global PechaKucha Night in Haiti” event is “Rebuilding after Katrina” by Mark Ryan, showing off what a group of motivated students can do. Also, please note that we’ve added presentation listings on each city’s PechaKucha Night landing page, so you’ll now be be able to find all online presentations from a particular PKN city that way as well.
We kick off this week’s presentation highlights with a look at two presentations taken from the very first PechaKucha Night in Phoenix, as part of the February 20 “Global PechaKucha Night for Haiti” — the first proper Vol. 1 will take place at the end of April. First up is Jack DeBartolo’s “A Liberian Experience.”
A great presentation about taking architectural learning out of the classroom into the field. From hyper theoretical thinking to hyper reality and real world projects — and nowhere could more real world than Liberia.
We recently updated you a few times in regards to the situation in Chile thanks to emails from PKN Concepcion organizer Alejandra Sepulveda — and the latest is that she is preparing a PechaKucha presentation describing what she’s gone through, that will go online. We were also relieved to hear back from PKN Santiago organizer Emilio Marin, and here’s some of what he had to share:
I’m OK, and I feel really lucky.
The BIG earthquake was very traumatic. 8.8 Richter and 7.5 here in Santiago. The images of the BIG EARTHQUAKE and the TSUNAMI are very shocking. The Earth is still moving, this past Thursday we had an earthquake of 6.9 Ritcher here in Santiago. The zone of the earthquake will take a least 2 years to get back on track, and obviously this is affecting our nation, in every way, economic, political and social.
I am now in the organization behind the next Biennale of Architecture in Chile. After the earthquake, we have changed all our efforts into focusing on the issue of reconstruction, as the architect can and must play an important role. Universities are organized, and they will contribute to re-construction projects in Chile. But I think it would be very interesting to have ideas from around the world.
It is very strange, but Chile has a history of natural disasters. In fact, the world’s largest quake occurred in Chile in 1960. A basic emergency housing has not yet been designed, which is more than just a tent. Right now people are in need of protection from the rain, and also need a house with a bathroom, to avoid health problems. I think there is a first stage of an emergency — a tent, or something more worthy and useful — but a second stage is planned as something definitive (temporary schools, hospitals, etc.), with also a final third stage of reconstruction. And as you know, many of these solutions are subject to an important economic factor.
Emilio also points us to this photo-heavy look at the chaos caused by the earthquake.
I’ll invite you to visit the “PechaKucha for Haiti” section of the site for more details — yes, we are still updating that page with the latest news, including adding links to Haiti-related presentations that have gone online — but we’re very happy to announce that the funds raised so far have paid for a new school!
Today – 20 days later – it gives us great pride in announcing that the PechaKucha global network of cities, organizers, presenters and fans has raised over $60,000 which allows Architecture For Humanity to build the first PechaKucha School in Haiti.
Hot on the heels of Providence’s latest PechaKucha Night — this week’s Vol. 12 — let’s give a listen to a presentation from last month’s Vol. 11 in the form of Melissa Withers‘ “A New Paradigm for Civic Engagement (Or, How I Got My Groove Back).”
Melissa gives us a great introduction, well OK a pitch, for Independent Diplomat — a newly formed organization that gives voices to countries that can’t be heard.
Not only is the next PechaKucha Night in Istanbul (Vol. 4) coming soon, the Istanbul edition of Time Out has picked it out as an event to recommend, so make sure to be at the Hayal Kahvesi Bistro on March 18 to see all manner of presentations.