5/25/2009

Architecture presentation as play ground

After 4 year study in architecture school and been through thousands of presentation. I figure out that there are quite a few presentation formats that suit to various purpose and stage. Instead of the conventional presentation format, there are "pecha kocha", "4/4 presentation", "charrete" and more if i can come up with. 

Considering the level of excitement, architectural presentation is pretty much like a play ground :p, and there are lots of interesting issue, like stage, player, big boss, activity pattern, excitement level and so on we can study on. If taking that as a research project, it may even contribute to improve the quality of all the presentations. Well, we see how it goes. Here they are,

1
  • individual or group
  • paper panel/ model can be chosen to play
  • players are often given 10-20 minutes to play
  • no guarantee that other player will pay attention to
  • big boss will decide your life or death
2
  • mostly individual presentation
  • PowerPoint only
  • player has 20 slides to go, each one 20 sec
  • if you cannot finish one slide, concentrate on the next one
  • big boss join the crowd
  • with snack and drink in some relaxing instance
3
  • 4 key players play at the same time
  • other 20 players divide into group of 4
  • every player need to present 4 times to all the groups
  • big boss join one of the groups
  • normally 2-3 minutes on one presentation
4

  • playing first and then presenting
  • divide into groups and work for certain amount of time
  • big boss hang around
  • when time is finish, move to a conventional presentation