Portland State University Shattuck Annex

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Pecha Kucha Night Portland Oregon volume 9 is scheduled for Saturday April 9th. This volume will be part of the Illuminated City: A Light With Content Symposium (vist illuminated-city.com to register) being held at the Shattuck Hall Annex on Portland State University's campus. Find out more about the related presentations and installations through this video.

The theme is spectrum: a) an array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property or b) a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence.

Saturday April 9th Shattuck Hall Annex - 1914 SW Park Avenue 19:30 Doors open for symposium reception & installation tour 20:20 Pecha Kucha starts

Presenters include:

Jacob Brostoff city planner / más transit

Brian Brush & Yong Ju Lee architect, designer / SoftRigid

Osvaldo 'Ozzie' Gonzalez board of directors / Miracle Theatre Group

Mykle Hansen writer, inventor / Mykle Systems Labs

Laura Hughes visual artist / Laura Hughes Studio

Ryan Lingard designer / ryan lingard design

Kelley Roy & Eric Black directors / ADX Portland

Susanne Seitinger researcher / MIT Media Lab / Fluid Interfaces Group

Pecha Kucha Portland is a FREE event with FREE beer/wine.

Your donations at the event are greatly appreciated and go directly towards future Pecha Kucha events.

Sponsors for volume 9 include cityscope, works partnership architecture, ARC/Ford Graphics of Oregon, Lompoc, Portland State University Architecture Department, and The Peoples' Sandwich of Portland.

Pecha Kucha Night was devised and is shared by Klein Dytham architecture.

Portland Open Forum on Design: "Expanding Architecture: A Conversation on Engagement and Change"

Portland State University Department of Architecture, Portland State University Social Equity and Opportunity Forum, and Architects Without Borders-Oregon to sponsor a forum on social responsibility and engagement in the design professions featuring Bryan Bell.

Designers have the potential to benefit many more people than they currently reach. No, this is not a call for pro bono work. Instead we are being challenged to play a more direct role in solving the critical social and environmental problems facing the nation and our communities--and to incorporate outreach into our own practice to serve what is an ever-growing client base with real needs. Come discuss the possibilities and challenges as we try to engage a broader range of issues as concerned citizens and designers.

Special guest, Bryan Bell, founder of Design Corps and editor of the much discussed recent book, Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism; Janet Hammer, Director of the Social Equity and Opportunity Forum at Portland State University; Sergio Palleroni, associate professor of architecture at Portland State University and founder of the BaSiC Initiative; John Duke, Clinic Director, Outside In; Abby Dacey, Architects Without Borders-Oregon, and Boora Architects; as well as other local practitioners and housing providers will engage with the audience in a discussion of the potentials and challenges we face in our efforts to create greater accountability and responsible engagement.

Free and open to the public

Coffee and Oregon apples will be provided.