PechaKucha Night in Melbourne Vol. 18 is set for this Wednesday (July 20), and here are more details from co-organizer Michelle Emma James — you’ll also find the full list of presenters with links on the official event page.
PechaKucha Melbourne Vol. 18 will be held on the opening night of the State of Design Festival. Established in 2004, the State of Design Festival is the largest and most innovative design event in Australia and the heart of design thinking and design activity. In 2011 the State of Design Festival explores design in, on and around projects that are transformative, mobile and networked, under the theme ‘Design That Moves.’ We have subverted this for our PechaKucha Night theme: ‘Brake, Break, Broke’. Think putting on the brakes, think pause and stop, taking a break, think crashing, smashing, breaking, think broken, think going for broke. Design starts when we stop.
Our guest speakers include Nicklas Wallberg who through his organisation Tram Sessions encourages Melbourne artists and bands to perform on city trams, artists Sarah Barrow & Michelle Gordon who celebrate transformation and new beginnings in the guise of building and destroying piñatas, and Melbourne’s best-loved cartoonist, poet, and whimsical cultural commentator Michael Leunig. The night will also feature: architects Jeremy McLeod and Ben Callery, fashion designer Liam Revell, researchers Jerome Frumar and Tim Schork, and inventor of hipDisk, Danielle Wilde.
Our audience will gather on the plaza created by Nathan Coley for his exhibition, Apperances at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for an evening of conversation and social connectivity. Street food and locally-made craft beer will be on tap throughout the evening.