Pecha-Kucha Rules

Pecha-Kucha is a new presentation style which allows you to show 20 slides for 20 seconds each – and when that’s finished 6 minutes and 40 seconds later – so is your presentation. Wouldn’t that be a refreshing change to those ennui sessions where people read their on-screen slides and provide very little additional information. As Wired said of the medium: the result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art. I’d like to see that. I really would. But it might be a while before it hits the Conference Room because it seems Pecha-Kucha, invented by two Tokyo-based architects, Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, is actually performance art – but they’re spreading so there are now pecha-nights in 80 cities around the world. Hopefully it will soon come to a city near me.