PECHA KUCHA VIDEO REPORT

finally, we´re able to present a short video report of the fabulous pecha kucha night here in PLATOON berlin. thanks again to all participants and to the police for not stopping by.

Pecha Kucha @ PLATOON.BERLIN from PLATOON on Vimeo.

REPORT: PECHAKUCHA @ PLATOON.BERLIN

thanks to everyone for coming yesterday to the PechaKuchaNight here on the PLATOON.area. it has been an incredible night and the presentations were all very interesting and diverse...







we also presented our KUNSTHALLE in Seoul and we hope that those of you who want to know more about PLATOON will come to visit us at our recruiting office!















once again we had a very special evening... a big thank goes to all the PecheKucha Team, they really brought a nice vibe to the area!















we hope that you all enjoyed it as much as we did!
and we are very sorry for all those who didnt manage to get in... unfortunately we had a limited number of seats..it was totally packed, and it would have been unfair towards those who made it on time.




once again... THANKS!!!




and if you feel like in the mood... come to chill&grill with us tomorrow from 3PM till sunset!

PECHAKUCHA photos by Lars Reimann from akud

Pecha Kucha Night Berlin Vol.14 @ PLATOON

finally another Pecha Kucha Berlin Open-Air Night!
guest curator is going to be Heidrun Melinski of PLATOON.cultural development. if it’s raining, the event has to be cancelled. we´ll keep you updated about that.

speakers list:
# Marcello Dato, Recruitment Officer, about PLATOON.SEOUL
# Nils Claussen about old boats.
# Miodrag Kuc, PLATOON´s UrbanPlanner in resident, presenting cracking the city - a research project about spatial outcome of subculture.
# Dorothee Deiss, photographer - As if Nothing Happened - On the death strip 20 years after the Wall „It is terrible and wonderful at the same time how fast life lets grass grow over history. But the scars remain.“
# Michael Liebe und Thorsten S. Wiedemann Gründer and curatorteam of amaze. about the convergence of computer games and art.
# Jonathan Imme, Co-Founder Palomar5 e.V., “about the daring attempt, to reinvent work“.
# Johanna Mantel, about the constitution process in Somalia.
# Aram Bartholl and Tobias Leingruber about Free Art & Technology.
# Konrad Kuechenmeister and Benjamin Weiss of berlinLOOPbrasil.
# Armin Linke photographer.
# Marco Canevacci, architect and co-founder of plastique-fantastique about pneumatic environments.
# Volker Bombien Lektor beim O'Reilly Verlag über Arduino (mikrocontroller-programming).
# Jörg Gastmann about Bandbreitenmodell.


Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds. presenters are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art, music and other creative fields.

giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds for each speaker, it's hard to get bored.







30.7.09 @ PLATOON, Alte Schönhauser Str.3
Doors: 21:00h, Start: 22:00
entrance: 6€








watch more Pecha Kucha Nights via PLATOON

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CRACKING THE CITY - FINISSAGE

you are all invited again to the finissage of CRACKING THE CITY, a scientific art project about spatial outcome of subcultural movements and interventions in urban context.

this time we will present two different kind of ''city bombing'': old school seed bombing and visual bombing by lichtpiraten.
Kuc, our urban planner in residence and creator of the project will hold a speech to draw some conclusions and launch the project to its second phase as soon as it gets dark.

we warmly advise you to bring your own umbrella with you... not just because of the unpredictable weather but mainly because of our participatory light installation which will take place at the end of the exhibition.


the finisage will start at 3 PM and will probably last untill 2AM. like every saturday you´ll be delighted by a delicious BBQ prepared by Mata and the best drinks in town served by our Bar mistress Jette.

see you tomorow... and dont forget to bring your friends!
P.

REPORT.VERNISSAGE
CRACKINGTHECITY BLOG

DIVE FOR FIVE

Thursday, 9th July
DONNERSTAGS-BAR
doors open: 9 pm

The New Spastiks will surprise us with their splattering and insane performance - showing their vision on fucked up childlike curiosity and wrong-headed daily impressions. Be smashed away - laughing permitted.

They are deadly serious - not here to joke - but if they appear to be, it's okay too.

The New Spastiks is a collaboration of
Herma Auguste Wittstock and Declan Rooney

REPORT: CRACKING THE CITY

what a great start of the PLATOON summer!
we had a very chilled day last saturday for the opening of the Cracking the City exhibition.
we´d like to thank all of you who came and hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did.






for those who missed it, here is a short report.
during the day we hosted two small 'cracks' presented in a site-specific manner. the collective repairberlin, a group of activists, artists, architects and scientists presented their series of urban intervention consisting in parking a symbolic park on a carpark in front of our headquarters. the action itself is part of a worldwide movement Park(ing) day established by rebar, an art and design collective from San Francisco. expect to see more of their spontaneous interventions during this summer.



























in the afternoon we also presented two very special guest, the discouraging duo blue&joy. who performed on top of our container, showing us tiny line between happines and sadness.















the exhibition will run till 25th of july and is open Mon-Fri 11-20h. feel free to pass by and share your ''crack'' directly on the wall by pasting stickers.
and dont forget... every thursday from 9 pm our members are invited to join us at our PLATOON.BERLIN area. jette will offer her special drinks and music... and in order to keep your mind engaged with some quality entertainment we will surprise you every thursday with some special performances ;-)

stay tuned!






REPORT.FINISSAGE

...also we CRACK the SUMMER !

yesterday,the PLATOON area berlin opened their summerseason.
on the occasion of the exhibition-opening cracking the city, in our ground container, we start in our new
designed yard the time, where the inner voice of all peoples say: you must go outside...in fucking summer.





























now we open the yard for our members, each saturday 3 p.m.

































and prepare with lifeblood the ingredients, that you can have a fine bbq














the bar...o o o is so constructed that you don´t
must go by showers









































so you can have fun with us, or you dump yourself with drinking your beer lonesome at home.

MEMBER MEETINGS FOR ALL DOGTAG HOLDERS

BERLIN: during summer 2009 we have weekly gatherings for all members of the PLATOON.NETWORK:
DONNERSTAGS-BAR on thursdays 9PM - dawn + GRILLEN&CHILLEN on saturdays from 3PM till sunset.


DONNERSTAGS-BAR

many of you still remember this institution of advanced drinking culture. you are invited to join us every thursday from 9 pm at the PLATOON.BERLIN area during this summer. the evening is weather-proof as we have an outdoor & indoor bar. jette will offer her special drinks and music and in order to keep you engaged with some quality entertainment we will surprise you every thursday with some special performances ;-)









GRILLEN&CHILLEN

with our famous BBQ combined with some specials from the bar to ease your weekend afternoon. if there are no heavy rains ;-)






IMPORTANT

to ensure a friendly and interesting crowd, we will firmly insist to kindly show us your dogtag as a membership authentication. you can bring a friend with you (+1).

everybody who is missing the dogtag or is interested in becoming a member can visit us in our recruiting office during office hours (11am - 8 pm, monday - friday)