International PechaKucha Day Is 2/19~20/2022

Seventeen years ago, architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein Dytham architecture invented PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) to encourage presenters to show more and tell less. The format involves 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide for words. Powerful, visual stories, told in just under seven minutes.

This year’s International PechaKucha Day runs from February 19~20, beginning at noon Tokyo time.. Check out the schedule here. The streaming website has an app to help you assemble your own presentation, and practice it before you launch it. PechaKucha events have been known to have up to 50,000 viewers, even when non-professional people are presenting.

Do you think you could assemble your work into a PechaKucha presentation?

Illustration from the IPD announcement web page.