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Join NCDC for our first PechaKucha Night of 2019! The theme for this pechakucha is “Home”, and will highlight designs that make you feel at home, interior home design, and more!

Synesthesia
BY TYLER NEILL
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Tyler Neill talks about how the production of a sense impression relates to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

Unusual Annuals
BY PHILLIPE CHADWICK
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Phillipe Chadwick presents to the viewers a look at Nashville's unusual annuals.

Color in Spaces and Design
BY PAUL BAMSON
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Paul Bamson presents to the viewers a look at color in architecture.

Coloring
BY JENN DEAFENBAUGH
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Jennifer Deafenbaugh talks about how he started to take coloring seriously from Jenn Deafenbaugh.

Color in Crayons
BY RON YEARWOOD
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Ron Yearwood presents to the viewers the works of Herb Williams.

Cour Lighting
BY GORDON DROITCOUR
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Gordon Droitcour talks about the works of Cour Design and their work with color.

Replacing Shame With Love
BY BETH INGLISH
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Beth Inglish talks about how she uses color in visual art to show love.

Interior Design Color Choices
BY AMHAD FREEMAN
@ VOL 28
ON MAY 24, 2018
Amhad Freeman talks about how color can be chosen in interior design.
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Ron Yearwood
Ron is a Nashville native, urban designer with degrees in both architecture + urban design. He coordinates the NCDC's Young Urbanists group, PARK(ing) Day Nashville and enjoys urban farming in his community garden. He has a passion for creating and envisioning a more livable, better connected and healthier city.
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Gary Gaston
Gary Gaston is the Design Director of the Nashville Civic Design Center, and a Lecturer with the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design. Gary joined the Design Center in 2002, and has led numerous planning efforts for the organization. Gary was a principal contributing author to The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City, published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2005, and he co-authored Moving Tennessee Forward: Models for Connecting Communities, published in 2012. Next City Magazine named Gary a “Next American Vanguard” in 2010. Gary served as the project director and executive producer of the NEA funded documentary film Design Your Neighborhood. Gary is currently working on a new book, Shaping the Healthy Community, to be published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2014.