Pecha Kucha Night

Overview

Note: due to extreme weather conditions (90km/h winds) this event has been cancelled.

What started in 2003 in Tokyo as a place for young designers to meet and showcase their work has spread across the globe. Pecha Kucha, the Japanese word for the sound made by having conversation, brings prominent thinkers and doers together. Each speaker is given 20 slides (each shown for 20 seconds) in order to convey their message.

Frday the 17th of January's event will see speakers discussing issues relating to Auckland itself.

The speakers are as follows:

- Dr Stephen Rainbow, General Manager of Strategy at Waterfront, who will discuss great design, sustainability and commercial development in the precinct.

- Food Forest NZ’s James Samuel will present options for growing urban food in our city.

- Project Director Sky Path Bevan Woodward shares his plans to transform Auckland into a cycle-friendly, walkable city.

- Transport planner and Green MP Julie Anne Genter presents new ideas on how to improve the user-friendliness of Auckland.

- Ecologist and photographer Alastair Jamieson shows amazing photography from the volcanoes in our backyard which make Auckland such a special city.

The presentation, which starts at 8:30pm, will be followed by a screening of The Human Scale at 9:15pm. Turn up early to catch Lawrence Arabia's DJ set from 5pm onwards.