Due to Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi’s presentation about his “Liegewiese” (a giant sofa lounge with integrated DJ booth which he built in 2009) at Berlin’s Global Pecha Kucha Day for Haiti, Uleshka was asked by IDEO to host a small workshop on social furniture and suggest speakers. To emphasize the importance of the independent maker movement…

Tsudaro was originally a tea house built in last days of the Edo period in Kyoto’s Kawabata area, Japan. It re-opened in 2010 as a concept-space new to the Gion district in Kyoto, which is famous for bars and restaurants only allowing guests by recommendation. Besides being open to everyone, Tsudaro wanted to extend the concept of a traditional tea house to a place for experiencing forgotten culture and crafts with authentic Japanese cultural art specialists. Uleshka helped them to create a strong concept, build a beautiful bilingual website and find the right angle to…

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. A team of international researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam developed this free software tool to grant an easy access to do-it-yourself electronics. Uleshka joined the team to create easy to understand information material such as PDFs and a new website (which is still in progress) to make it even easier for users to loose their inhibitions about technology and to get started…

Pecha Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It rests on a simple presentation format: 20 images x 20 seconds. This unique framework makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Uleshka wrote the book…

In 2005 Japanese design company IMG SRC allowed then web designer Uleshka to experiment and granted her a special project: a blog about design. The outcome was PingMag: An online design magazine based in Tokyo evolving around the idea of finding inspiration in everything and defining the term design as broadly as one could. It became Asia’s biggest design blog…

Based on the international first-class network of design-blog PingMag, Uleshka keeps adding interesting folks to her address book from design to business, music to sustainability and arts to marketing. She is a natural communicator and believes in personal, authentic contacts which she is happy to update, revive and expand constantly. Just by working on the Pecha Kucha Night Book alone, she was in touch with over 80 international organizers daily…