9 Weeks of Pecha Kucha | Art581: Graduate Seminar in Design | Winter Quarter 2009
by Benjamin K. Shown

Each week in the 2009 winter quarter of the Graduate Seminar in Design, readings were assigned from a score of contemporary social thought 'big guns'. In addition to study and class discussion of these critical texts, each student gave Pecha Kucha style presentations. Pecha Kucha is a presentation format devised in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo's Klein-Dytham Architecture in which a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. The following is my collected archive of 9 weeks of Pecha Kucha presentations inspired by the according authors and their major texts. On the back of each individual slide is brief commentary.


WEEK 1: A LIL' SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF (1.8.09)
WEEK 2: Hume, Emerson, Hoffman (1.15.09)
WEEK 3: Saussure, Turner (1.22.09)
WEEK 4: Derrida, Levi-Strauss, Piaget (1.29.09)
WEEK 5: Barthes, Csikszentmihalyi, Kopytoff (2.5.09)
WEEK 6: Lacan, Klein, Winnicott (2.12.09)
WEEK 7: Foucault, Kant, Burke (2.19.09)
WEEK 8: Eco, Bachelard, Sontag (2.26.09)
WEEK 9: Freud, Haraway, Brooks (3.5.09)

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