Melbourne had its Inspire Japan event last week, and from what we hear — from co-organizer Michelle Emma James — it was “a HUGE success!” Below is a report from Michelle, but also, click here to see a larger version of the panoramic shot pictured above (taken by Neo Feliciano).
We, at herestudio, teamed up with guest curators Antony Di Mase (architect) and Dave Anderson (lighting designer) to ask speakers a simple question: ‘What is light?’ Each of the speakers had something different to share, whether it be about artificial or daylighting in architecture, stage lighting, or capturing light through photography.
This very special volume of PechaKucha Night was located in an amazing basement space in a heritage building in Melbourne’s CBD. We had also collaborated with the organisers of an exhibition which was held in the same space at the same time — over fifty child+parent teams had made lamps out of recycled materials! There was a beautiful glow to the space and was most definitely inspiring! I’ve included an amazing panorama photo taken by Neo Feliciano so you can see!
We also had yummy solar-powered beer served on site which kept everyone drinking and dancing to some great tunes late-ish into the night! We were very happy to award one of our door prizes to Michael, who was actually in Tokyo at the time the earthquake hit on 11 March, and had increased his odds by buying many many raffle tickets to donate to the cause!