On June 20th, 2019, Cleveland will kick off a weekend of celebration with PechaKucha Night: Waterways, a groundbreaking global event featuring presentations from thought leaders from around the world!Kent State's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative is a community partner and we hope you will join us at the event.Taking place at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica on the banks of the Cuyahoga almost 50 years to the day of the Cuyahoga River’s last burning, the free event will highlight clean water issues in an exciting, format appealing to those who love creativity, those who love clean water, and all those who love Cleveland.Presenters from Ethiopia, Uganda, Lebanon, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cleveland leverage the rapid-fire PechaKucha format to share diverse perspectives on how communities around the world can re-think their relationship with the world's more important resource. The beauty of the PechaKucha presentation is its concise format: each speaker presents only 20 images and each image is timed to 20 seconds.
Taraneh Meshkani, Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State will be one of the presenters. She will talk about the work of our graduate students in a recent studio which focused on reclaiming urban riverfront sites in Cleveland; Beirut, Lebanon; and Medellin, Colombia.This event is 100% free and open to the public due through the generous support of the Cleveland Foundation and partnership with LAND Studio. Reserve your ticket today at: https://globalpkn.com/We hope that you us for this unique evening filled with diverse perspectives. Together, let’s celebrate #Cuyahoga50!