Pecha Kucha from Da Fucha 4/11/08

Posted by Peter Lunenfeld on April 6th, 2008 filed in Uncategorized

As their final in Design Dialogues, 1st year MDP students will do a pecha kucha in which they envision themselves five to seven years out of graduate school, coming back to do a presentation at Art Center. This is a prospective exercise in retrospective path finding. As Oscar-nominated editor Sally Menke discussed in Design Dialogues in the Fall of ‘07, one can only craft the narrative of a career in reverse, picking out signposts in the rear view mirror. This assignment, which might also be tited “Pech Fucha,” also serves as a place to examine the issue of ambition: How does a creative person think past the defaults of design authorship, commercial celebrity, and avant-garde autonomy?