short, quick, simultaneous - 'Hooked on Speed'

the now-seems-to-be-obsolate notion of the 'Pecha Kucah' is still valid?

I read an article about the network of lectures done in ad-hoc universities (or 'the university of streets') of downtown Montreal from the Mirror in February. The rule is truly Pecha Kucah - comprising of a 20 slides to be presented in 20 seconds. The audience (students) do not need to worry about not being able to grasp the core of a lecture as 'many' are in a line, awaiting 20 seconds for their own presentation....

so we are still 'hooked on speed':

'Pecha Kucha is a fast-paced international poetry slam for architects. And it's good.
On a recent Wednesday evening, Boulevard Saint-Laurent, the sometimes seamy spine of Montreal nightlife, was hopping—from the comedy festival Juste Pour Rire to the strip joint Café Cleopatre. But incredibly, the biggest crowd on the boulevard was watching architecture. Inside the Société des Arts Technologiques, a bare-bones art and performance space, more than 500 people had gathered for the latest installment in a global phenomenon known as Pecha Kucha (a Japanese expression meaning “chitchat”). For three hours, architects, artists, and graphic designers presented work according to the Pecha Kucha rules: Each was allowed to show 20 slides for 20 seconds each—no more, no less—while speaking into a microphone. Audience members, mostly in their 20s, socialized over beer and wine while viewing the presentations on large screens....'

The idea, according to Mark Dytham, who five years ago co-founded Pecha Kucha with Astrid Klein, his partner in the Tokyo architecture firm Klein Dytham, is to get architects to show their work without putting the audience to sleep. “Normally you give an architect a slide projector, and you’re sitting there for hours,” Dytham says. Which is why architecture lectures are deadly dull, and why Pecha Kucha has spread from Tokyo to more than 130 cities worldwide—it’s hard to think of another attraction that would work in places as diverse as Tel Aviv, Tijuana, and Trieste. Indeed, there are now so many Pecha Kucha nights that a traveler could check the calendar at pecha-kucha.org and plan an entire trip around them—in a single week in August, it would have been possible to attend Pecha Kuchas in Stockholm; Auckland; Bandung, Indonesia; Kampala, Uganda; and Portland, Oregon....'

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28679/hooked-on-speed/

...and the dullness to be overcome in the architectural discipline - this reminds of the fiction writing taken on board in the realm of writing of architecture. or 'the Fun Palace' by Cedric Price - a delight in movement, in changes'.