PechaKucha in collaboration with Stockholms Arkitektförening

If only the speakers had been slightly more relaxed our PechaKucha would have been perfect. The nightclub was full, 250 people, topics really interesting and many new faces in the audience. Next time, when everyone is more used to the format, it will be great. This was our 25th PechaKucha, something to celebrate in itself. And now 10 cities around Sweden are running their own PechaKucha under the Svensk Form flag. Very popular, a good way to share ideas and creativity in the city, and to be together in an informal way, "for good thinking and drinking" as the founders Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein always say. To bring architecture and design together is just natural, as well as joining all other creators in an evening. Normally we do not do specific themes, but occasionally it is interesting.

The Speakers were

Marie-Louise Richards and Anna Duarte - Studio Urban Dialogue 
Mark Humphreys - Tengbom, showed his projects and on a personal level his own apartment.
Mårten Leringe - Berg, 
Carl Kärsten and Jonas Torsvall - Kit Architecture,
Rebecca Rubin and Charlotta Skog - White, 
Yuri Suzuki - Designer and Sound Artist, 
Annika Enqvist and Therese Kristiansson - The New Beauty Council, 
John Manoochehri - Architect and Sustainability Designer, 
Lena Anderson - Interior Designer, 
Max Zinnecker - Architect

Marie-Louise Richards and Anna Duarte encourages the participatory design process and individual marks, shops and entrepreneurship in areas such as Rinkeby and Tensta

Tengboms connecting chairs and Ulf Rollofs slide in the Swedish Pavillion in Shanghai, which received a gold medal for its creativity

British Architect Mark Humphreys living in Stockholm and working with Tengboms shows his own private apartment

Annika Enqvist and Therese Kristiansson of New Beauty Council in glitter and moustache, talking about the carnevalesk movements in art and architecture in the city, where the parades and physical body expresses the art and the ideas

Paper messages trown on the floor as they went along

Mårten Leringe from Berg showed how they have replanned and reworked the arrival terminal and garden around the harbour of Värtan, where passengers arrive on the big ships from Finland and the Baltic countries. They are led to walk in grids so they wont loose the way!

 

Big audience on the floor and standing - 250 guests

John Manoochehri, sustainable design and architecture, with his friends including our renting neigbour of Sustainable Technology Fund, André Heinz

Always happy to welcome our Svensk Form honorary ambassadors, journalists and sisters Hedvig Hedqvist and Rebecka Tarschys, with refreshing comments as always

 My old classmates from konstfack, dear Micke Agaton and Ann Backström

Architect/designer Peter Hallén talking to textile designer Gunila Axén 

Rebecca Ruin och Charlotta Skog making an incredible project investigating, documenting and analysing the life of and around 57 bridges in Stockholm and what they mean to our lives.

Japanese artist/designer in residence at IASPIS at present, Yuri Suzuki sharing his rediscovery of how to record individual records- new technology, but old renderings in individual adaptations and unique forms. Make our own soundtrack and our own individualized record.

John Manoochehri questioning if contemporary architectural education is relevant for the students of architecture of today, with the speed information and technology is moving.

 Lena Andersson, interior designer and living proof of Klein-Dytham architect's motto: Colour is free - use it? On our fear of using colour

Max Zinnecker - constructing a completely mathematical sculpture, playground, picnic-arena near my house on Gärdet, in Starrbäcksängen. Looks like lots of fun

Marie-Louise Richards and Anna Duarte - Studio Urban Dialogue 
Mark Humphreys - Tengbom, showed his projects and on a personal level his own apartment.
Mårten Leringe - Berg, 
Carl Kärsten and Jonas Torsvall - Kit Architecture,
Rebecca Rubin and Charlotta Skog - White, 
Yuri Suzuki - Designer and Sound Artist, 
Annika Enqvist and Therese Kristiansson - The New Beauty Council, 
John Manoochehri - Architect and Sustainability Designer, 
Lena Anderson - Interior Designer, 
Max Zinnecker - Architect